Wai Peng Chan

A colourful place, photo taken on 2 June 2020, the day when circuit breaker is cautiously lifted, and Singapore enters into phase 1 mode..

The mural depicts life in Old Chinatown by the artist Mr Yip Yew Chong. This mural provides a glimpse of how different tenant families, regardless of race, language, or religion, once lived together in the same shop house. This was how the artist lived during his childhood days until 1983. His family was 1 of 5 tenants co-living in a second storey shop house in Chinatown Sago Lane, sharing long wooden double decker beds or lived in compartments in the long hall.