Concrete in the Nature 2

Kevin has made dozens of other photos of this Brutalist sculpture with rest of the Brutalist buildings in the background, but only this single photo with nature in the background and a leaning tree in the foreground. That was the moment he first realized, in a conversation on the natural setting of the architecture with a TV programme host at his 7th visit to the school, that ‘perhaps the trees here actually resonate with the forms of the architecture over the years.’ The phenomenon is similar to how the leaves from two adjacent trees wouldn’t grow to overlap with each other under the sunlight.

Being a concrete sculpture within the legendary 1981 Brutalist addition to the historical St Stephen’s College campus – it's perhaps the most artistic and the least functional element in the building complex – as a ceremonial feature & a bell tower accommodating a bell made in 1930. However, Kevin strongly believes that every little human creation and gesture would form a certain coherence with the lives around over time, and we might all have under-estimated how our way of life have been largely shaped by the fast-changing complex urban environment around us.