Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Statues and water features in Singapore at Clementi, and meaning of the name Clementi

 

Some pieces are in the water. Others are half way up the columns.


Water bubbles, sculpture by Chua Boon Kea, has been around since 2011.

In case you are wondering about the name Clementi, which comes from the Clementi family in Singapore. Two members of the family could be the person the area was named after. Since I don't know much about either, I need go no further. But a bust of one of them is here.
Mr Clementi. 


Clementi is an Italian surname, originally popular in the Venice region, a patronymic (child of a father called Clemens). Clemens was from the Latin for merciful or mild.

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