Radical Curiosity at ArtScience Museum

I enjoyed the interactive and interesting exhibition of the famous innovator Buckminster Fuller known for geodesics dome at ArtScience Museum. I went on last Saturday morning and was quite glad that the exhibition was quite empty. I spent the day exploring the display and participate in activities like building the dome and tensegrity structure. I think I will do some sketching on the dome tomorrow. I aim to spend at least an hour on sketching starting tomorrow. 

The last day of exhibition is on 10 July this year. I think I will visit the exhibition during the June holidays again. 

At this Build-it-like-Bucky Playground, there are building activities like using ice-cream sticks and papers to create dome and tensegrity structure.

The ArtScience Museum is inspired by both the palm and lotus flower.

Quite fun to build this structure using ice-cream sticks and rubber bands only.

I brought the Personal Chronofile which include some activities 

Minimalism Arts Exhibition at ArtScience Museum

I love visiting arts and design museums. This Monday, I went to ArtScience Museum to see the Minimalism arts exhibition.  Two tickets are priced at $16.00 due to 1 for 1 promotion.

This exhibition gives a more zen vibe compared to National Gallery of Singapore Minimalism exhibition.  Minimalism arts concept is inspired from Zen Buddhism concept of Emptiness and Nothingness. It reminds me of the verse Emptiness is not nothingness and Nothingness is not emptiness. 

Emptiness could be presence of vast space where you have infinite possibilities. 

From Master Sheng Yen,

"Buddhism talks about emptiness in nature while existence produced by causes and conditions, which involves change, non-stopping, unfixed, non-staying without ever remaining in the same state.  This is what impermanence means. 

Since it is ever-changing, constantly changing in appearance, then what about its nature? Its nature changes too. The nature of clouds and that of water are somewhat different. So they exist out of emptiness. In their existence, you see emptiness. 

So the Heart sutra, " Neither increase nor decrease." It is neither arising nor ceasing in the first place. This actually means its neither empty nor existing. 

Emptiness in Buddhism refers to the kind that is neither empty nor existing. That is true emptiness. Rather than a distinct separation between existence and emptiness. That would be a kind of void, hollowness, a lonely kind of nothingness. Buddhist emptiness is not lonely at all. Instead, its lively and bustling. It is ever evolving and constantly changing. This is existence of importance. "

Minimalism at ArtScience Museum 

To view another Minimalism Arts exhibition at National Gallery, click here.