iLight Marina Bay 2017 is in town!

Projections on the Merlion: The Body of the Sea by Danny Rose from France.

We arrived early, when it was still light. because we were going for dinner in the area first. Thus we saw a few of the light installations ‘unlit’ and by daylight. Like this crochet urchins. They are made by Choi & Shine, from which we had just seen the giant crochet blanket over the Amsterdam canals that I showed you in this article about the Amsterdam Light Festival.

Row of Urchins with the CBD’s skyscrapers as a backdrop. Including the building that we lived in for four years; The Sail.

People walking under/in one of the crochet Urchins.

Two couples under one of the Urchins, taking selfies.

“Are we gonna queue for this? Nah, don’t think so….”. It’s pretty, for sure, but we rarely queue for stuff.

Same story here. There was a queue and then everybody that gets to go inside takes his or her wee time to pose and take selfies. No, thanks. Like I said, I’ll go back on a weekday eve and hope it’s better then. The installation is called Passage of Inner Reflection.

This installation is called Northern Lights. I liked the effect, like a blue-ish wave that traveled and changed shape and color. By an artist from Sweden in collaboration with the Amsterdam Light Festival. There were three Dutch installations, by the way. Not bad for such a small country.

Having fun with lights.

Projections on the ArtScienceMuseum. Titled: Secret Galaxies by Syndicate (Singapore). The hanging platforms of the DNA-bridge are a good viewing spot.

This is one of the more appealing (to me) stills from the video that is projected on the museum. I was not very impressed.

Watching the projections on the Merlion. Unfortunately, as with the projections on the ArtScienceMuseum, I was not really impressed. I have seen several projections on both landmarks over the years, some better than others. The ones from this year are definitely not the best, as far as I’m concerned.

Dande-lier: umbrellas form a chandelier, but the total shape also resembles a dandelion, hence dande-lier. By COLOURS from Singapore. Nice!

Art Zoo is an inflatable playground. It looks like fun. This is a paid partner program.

Top left: Moonflower by Jun from Singapore, top right: Waves, bottom left: HOME, bottom right: Ultra Light Network.

I read that this one is a ‘selfie magnet’. Technically it’s quite a simple installation, really. Strapped ribbons, after dark lit up by some lights. It’s called Horizontal Interference, by two Polish artists.

The installation may be done with simple means, but the effect is grand!

Everybody is taking selfies.

I tried to make a fab selfie too, as I saw so many others doing. Epic fail! My iPhone -especially the selfiecamera- takes lousy pics.

Beautiful huge installation by TILT from France, titled The Colorful Garden of Light.

The butterflies change color and move with the wind. This installation is another favorite of the audience and rightfully so!

What a beautiful sight!

These enormous peonies are part of the same installation. Very pretty.

Ocean Pavillion is made out of 25.000 up cycled Evian bottles. The idea comes from an artist from the UK: Luke Jerram.

I love this blue installation! It reminds me of the works of Gaudi.

It was possible to enter the pavilion and walk through it, as you see in the right picture.

It’s a small pavilion and yes, it was crowded here too. But we managed to go inside.

Looking up you looked into the towers of the pavilion. Pretty!

Here you can see the bottles and the bottle caps very clearly.

So fairytale-like, don’t you think?! No, not me. I’m talking about these gorgeous shapes, borrowed from Islamic tiles. HYBYCOZO, by Filipchuk and Beaulieu.

So photogenic!

I really like the picture on the right that Frits took. What a beautiful shapes!