Hollow, Caryatid

Hollow, Caryatid is the second in my Revisiting Eulogy series, an attempt to capture those emotions and feelings I'd first experienced when I'd started pursuing photography as an art form.

Like Eulogy: Requiem for Bida Dari, the main subjects of this essay are tombstones, these particular ones the remnants of those exhumed from the Christian Cemetery at Bukit Timah in 1988 and relocated to the Armenian Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator at Hill Street. Again, the theme is one of the new supplanting the old, of history giving way to progress. I'm sure many more graves were ground into rubble when Bukit Timah was redeveloped into one of Singapore's biggest and most exclusive urban sprawls. These few monuments are the only ones that survived the diaspora, and close to two decades on, they still bear the marks of that passage upon their faces.

If these gravestones had a story to tell, then this would be it.

From the series Revisiting Eulogy: Visions of the Afterlife at the Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator, Copyright (C) Jason Koh, 2006.