Saga Tree, Botanic Gardens

Title
Saga Tree, Botanic Gardens
Year/Period
2013 - 2014
Region
Singapore
Object Type
digital fine art prints, digital photographic prints, installations (visual works)
Material
cloth, colour (pigment), wood (plant material), ink
Technique
photographic techniques, photographic printing techniques, installing, hand-colouring
Dimension
Object size: 111.0 x 74.0 x 12.0 cm
Accession No.
2016-00935
NLB Type
Sculpture

Saga Tree, Botanic GardensLow See Chuan, 52, IT professionalMr Low started collecting saga seeds more than 10 years ago, both for fun and as a way of spendingtime with his children, especially his youngest daughter Zirong. In 2005, he decided to start a GoogleMap showing locations of saga seed trees in Singapore, updating it whenever he came across a bigspecimen. The map currently has 57 trees.The heritage saga tree in the Botanic Gardens is one of his favourite "harvest" spots. It has a girth of4.8m and height of 24m. His family has kept their collection of seeds in a tall spaghetti jar, and at lastcount, there were 3271 seeds inside. "When I look at the jar," he says, "It reminds me of all the times wehave gone through for it.”One line at the back of postcard:No.23Saga Tree, Botanic GardensMap to the Saga Trees of Singapore