Ways to Tie Trees In the studio

In the studio

This book holds the picture life of U Than Maung

or playing the grand piano

Excerpt from foreword by Elisabeth Biondi

282mm x 215mm x 10mm

Ways to Tie Trees In the studioBetween August and December 2015, Woong Soak Teng explored the man made garden city of Singapore and made portraits of its staked trees. As in many cities around the world, here trees are uprooted and relocated to conform to a controlled cityscape determined by urban planning. As part of an attempt to construct productive and aesthetic living environments for ourselves, nature has long since been subjected to manipulation at the mercy of human hands.