TITLE: Void (Void deck abstracts series I)

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues into its second year, causing lockdowns of various degrees and continuing to turn our ‘normal’ daily upside down, I have not been able to peruse my passion of landscape, travel, and nature photography as I would normally have.

I, therefore, have started to look at my neighborhood as hunting grounds for my photography taking a closer look at what is my immediate environment around my current home in Singapore.

This series belong to my city abstraction and architecture series. Through my abstract series I want to illustrate that not only the "big picture" matters. Often it is the attention to detail that makes a venture successful, that leads to advance in engineering, medicine like for example the vaccine against Covid-19, etc. As I walk around in life with eyes wide open to discover not only how beautiful for example the entirety of a building is but how a little detail contains as least much beauty (and importance to the building). Often the result of taking a photo of a small detail is rather like an abstract work of art.

The series focusses on the Housing & Development Board (HDB) buildings in my area. The HDB buildings are Singapore’s public housing buildings. Often the ground floor is left open. This floor is called the void deck and is for communal use: to meet friends, play, or even to celebrate weddings. All this came to a grinding halt during the pandemic and the void decks are literally left void.

I walked around the void decks of the HDB buildings – and with the absence of the usual buzz – I noticed a lot of striking details that I would normally not have seen.

This series is called “Void” (Void Deck Abstracts)”.

AUTHOR: Christine Nagel (Singapore)