Pembungaan

Pembungaan
OUE Bayfront Plaza, Walkway and Lobby, Singapore
2011

 ‘Pembungaan’ means ‘blossoming’ in Malay, and, as its name suggests, the monumental mural is an ode to the lushness of nature and its timeless rhythms.  Like the themes in her oeuvre, the use of a local word for an artwork’s title is a practice Kumari maintains to imbue her work with local and Southeast Asian identity.  

It is a meditation on the eternal rhythm of nature. It invokes nature’s cyclical seasons where each end is also the beginning of a new journey from germination to fruition.

Inspired by the fleshy interior of the chilli pepper and the maze of the nutmeg, the mural’s vegetal motifs weave a flowing design that moves like a wind-borne serenade from the façade of OUE@Bayfront into the building’s main lobby.