This really amazing work can be found near the Cavenagh Bridge in Singapore. It evokes happy moments of the city’s early days, when young children would play and bathe in the Singapore River without a worry in the world. Clueless to the dangers of swimming in the unsanitary and polluted waters of the river, they would swing from tree branches and noisily jump in for splashes and dives.
In 1983, the Clean Rivers project was initiated, and the kids and their families were removed from the area, and so their laughter and swimming stopped. Artist Chong Fah Cheong found a way to bring a shadow of that happy past into the present and make it immortal by creating this dynamic work depicting five boys playing on the river bank and jumping into the water.