Friday, August 10, 2012

Hermes - The Gift of Time

I brought Kae along to the Hermes exhibition - The Gift of Time, held at the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station.

It was my first time at the railway station, so you can guess my excitement. Kae was too, as I told her that's where trains like Thomas travel from.





The exhibition was divided into a few sections. The staff will guide you along and narrate the story behind each theme at each section.

1. The Origin of Time. Never forget; the first role of Light is to make the Dark more beautiful, and not to measure out the days.

2. Take the time to wander and ponder at Free Time, Keep your watch in the Gift of Time pouch to relax and not be pressured by time constraints.



3. Time Suspended. Immerse in the meticulous precision of Hermes watchmakers.



4. Time Balance. Night after night, the top span and danced on the table to the rhythm of a beating heart, tracing its circle with the precision, patience and pace of the second hand on a clockface.



5. The Stroke of Time. The bag counted the seconds and marked off the minutes, hoping to make sense the onset of maturity, taking care of its skin. Leather purrs beneath the gentle stroke of time. (This happens to be my favorite)




6. Imaginary Time. Let's all escape into the imaginary , for a moment.

7. The Gift of Time. Beneath the branches of an ageless tree, after thousands of years of deep thought, time concluded that there was no end.




The whole exhibition took us like 20 minutes? Of course I would have been out sooner if not for the narrators.

At the back of the hall, there were some stalls at where the tracks are. People get to sit and rest while sipping a cuppa or having food. Most people however took the chance to take pictures of the now defunct railway station.



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