... artificiality.1 By interrogating the visuality of the City Hall façade in images, and studying its formal properties as symptoms of larger social, cultural and historical processes at work, the invisible ... homecoming at the Padang” in The Straits Times, 10 August 1987, p .3 Tan, Hsueh Yun The People’s Padang” in The Straits Times, August 19 93, p .3 Tan, Joceline “Taking on the Mighty PAP,” in The Star, ... conceals its own artificiality, he also forwards that the same image “shows what cannot be seen” And this is true of the images of the City Hall façade, where both its manifest and latent meanings...