One glance at Your Favourite Drink Stall Auntie and Singaporeans will immediately recognise its reference to local hawker culture. After all, it is an integral part of the Singaporean way of life. But the woman featured in the digital artwork isn’t your typical drink stall vendor. Instead, it is Amazon queen Eurypyle, whose portrait had been etched out from a 1920 painting of the same name by English artist John William Godward.
The whimsical creation is part of homegrown digital artist Hafiiz Karim's Visitors of Singapore series, a collection of 50 works featuring scenes and experiences unique to the city state, superimposed with famous classical art muses. While recontextualising classical art against the backdrop of modern society is nothing new, the artist wanted to “reimagine how these figures would look like in Singapore”.