MOOD OF THE DAY
是日心情

Everywhere, 2022

Hong Kong is a city with lots of pressure, people are always striving for their lives. If you could spot this poster at this unobtrusive corner, why not spending a minute to sense and be aware of your own mood? Tear down the colour that can represent your mood of the day and remember it.
Do we decide our mood, or does it decide our lives?
香港是個高壓城市，香港人每日為生活奔波。若你能覺察放在車站旁、街道上、紅綠燈旁、牆壁上的這街招，已是少數，不如花一分鐘時間覺察是日心情，撕下代表是日心情的顏色吧。
到底是人們決定心情，還是心情主宰人們的生活呢？

Community Art: 影片

MAY THE COUNTRY BE PROSPEROUS AND THE PEOPLE AT PEACE
國泰民安

Aberdeen, 2022

The photos were taken in Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Aberdeen was a traditional town with fishing industry. These ships were idled due to the moratorium during the time. The fishermen were religious and they had a tradition to hang up flags writing a wish “May The Country Be Prosperous and The People at Peace (Chinese: 國泰民安). The national flags of China were also hanged due to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day this year. Different types of permutation in terms of lines, shapes and objects were shown in the series in order to symbolise the social order under the reign of HKSAR and the Chinese government. Given the situation of freedom being oppressed in Hong Kong, will the wish of fishermen come true? Or just another social order?

《國泰民安》取材自香港南區香港仔。香港仔是舊香港的漁業重地，休漁期的時候，一排又一排的「艇仔」和漁船會停靠在香港仔與鴨脷洲中間的水域，組合成充滿本土漁家風情的景象。漁民經常在風雨中與大海搏鬥，也希望有多些漁獲，所以會祈求上天庇佑其安全與收穫，因而發展出插上「風調雨順國泰民安」旗幟的傳統。

時移勢易，香港仔的海上不只有「國泰民安」旗幟，回歸後每個七一，更能看見中國國旗與香港區旗飄揚，寓意「從小漁村走到大都會」的香港繼續繁榮穩定。本系列透過香港仔的社區黑白光影，對照飄揚的旗幟，引領觀眾思考口號式的「繁榮穩定」，是否等於700萬「香港仔」心中的「國泰民安」？現在的香港，你認為是「國泰民安」嗎？

Community Art: 作品集

LESS IS MORE

To Kwa Wan Community Art Project, 2021

This series was my first community art project. It was dedicated to To Kwa Wan, an old district in Hong Kong. I was thinking back and forth on how to infiltrate aesthetic activities limited to pure art and refine culture into every corner of daily life; how to use imagination to eliminate the boundaries of life between each other. The series was created to Look for the simple aesthetics belonging to To Kwa Wan (Hong Kong), and express the relationship between the public space and people of To Kwa Wan through the mutual gaze of light, lines, patterns and figures.

Community Art: 作品集

WHO 是誰

Central and Western District, 2022

"Who" seems to be a question: "Who am I? Who are they?" Asking "Who" is like self-denial: "Who" is not anyone's who, and can be anyone's who.

From antique streets to business districts, who has experienced regime change, and who come from all over the place to gather here? Under the repression of norms, who derived the commonality of the "new era" and was labelled as indifferent and utilitarian? This place is unpredictable, who is constructing identity from it?

The series explores the interdependence between my city and the self.

The styling is a mime costume, which is a metaphor for Hong Kong that has never had the right to speak. We put on smiling masks without expressing our emotions, entertaining people with exaggerated body movements and hiding our true selves. The saying "Fake it till made it" is popular in Hong Kong. Wearing white gloves symbolises a pair of dirty hands hidden in the middle, covering up the discord in our city at all levels.

It's me, it's them, it's you.

「是誰」看似疑問：「我是誰？他又是誰？」問「是誰」又像自我否定：「誰」不是任何人的誰，又可以是任何人的誰。

從古董街到商業區，是誰經歷政權更迭，是誰來自各地卻匯聚於此？在規範壓抑下，又是誰衍生出「新時代」共性，被冠上冷漠、功利的標籤？此地變幻莫測，是誰在從中建構認同？

系列探討我城和自我互生相即的部分。

造型為默劇服飾，比喻這座一直沒有話語權的城市，黑白不分褒貶，配上鮮紅吊帶，對比環境。我們戴上微笑面具，卻沒表達情緒，以誇張形體動作娛樂眾人，隱藏真正的自我。香港流行起「Fake it till made it」的說法，戴上白手套，象徵一雙隱藏在當中骯髒的手，掩飾我城各層面的齟齬。

是我，是他，也是你。

Creative Director: Kim, PM

Photographer: Kim, PM

Model: Kim, PM