Boon Keng

Boon Keng...a place i had no mental image of even though i have passed it so many times its not funny(the mrt tracks run alondside it and Kallang station is right by it) Anyhow sometime back a friend dropped me off at Kallang mrt station and i chanced upon the now abandoned buildings, well abandoned may be too strong a word..tenanted to cats and pigeons seems a more realistic situation. However you view it the buildings are now void of human life and its amazing how quickly the sense of chaos that i am sure surrounded such a central habitat vanishes. The corridors are empty, the flats are quiet and the void decks are well void(pun intended) The car park is now used as a meeting ground for strange people ...the play ground and all its equipment stand silent as does the basketball court..game over i reckon. My fascination with places like this continues to grow, from abandoned buildings on sentosa to derelict hospitals in changi there is just something about these types of buildings that fascinate me. I think it has something to do with imagining all the lives and stories that this place holds in its for want of a better word AIR in its AIR, you can almost breath the history.
Soon the wrecking ball will cut a path through these flats and the history that is written in the walls be be nothing more then a memory, with a condo for a tombstone. Such is life.
I do know that i see or rather feel a sense of beauty in these things, i am sure most of the people that see these pics will disagree but for me there is something there that i just cant explain. Like my photographs of a void deck sometime back which cause more then a few people to ask "what the hell" i see something in these places and buildings that i think my photographs cannot convey, not for want of trying mind you. Anyhow here are my pictures.

Side bar- I hope you found the many typos. it gives me joy to make you happy.