Reading for healing

Visitors are drawn to Tan Tock Seng Hospital's art installation, A Book Maze (above), which is made up of 3,500 books of different genres. It is part of the hospital's Art of Healing programme that aims to use the arts to help patients relax. The boo
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Visitors are drawn to Tan Tock Seng Hospital's art installation, A Book Maze (above), which is made up of 3,500 books of different genres. It is part of the hospital's Art of Healing programme that aims to use the arts to help patients relax. The books are available for patients and their visitors to take away. The exhibit, put together by British artist Wee Wai Ming, opened in the hospital's atrium and will end next Wednesday.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 22, 2015, with the headline Reading for healing. Subscribe