"Limousine" Sculpture, Carnarvon Lane, George Town

Limousine (GPS: 5.41508, 100.33488) is a steel-rod sculpture installed on the wall of the shophouse facing Carnarvon Lane, at the junction of Carnarvon Street, in George Town, Penang. The sculpture depicts a disgruntled employer looking at the handiwork of his employee who was making a model car.

The Carnarvon Street area is renowned for having bookshops, coffin shops and shops welling funerary paraphernalia, which includes paper-and-wood replicas of items to be burned for the afterlife. This art for the dead is today itself a dying art, and the "Limousine" sculpture captures the lighter side of the craft. The "Limousine" sculpture is based on a caricature by Tang Mun Kian for the Marking George Town project.

Limousine Sculpture, Carnarvon Lane, George Town, Penang (30 June 2012)


A closer view of the Limousine sculpture (1 July 2012)

The "Limousine" Sculpture is on the Map of Lebuh Carnarvon, Penang

List of Steel-Rod Sculptures by Tang Mun Kian, Marking George Town Sculptures and Penang Street Art