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ToKwawan, Hong Kong. Rolleiflex 2.8E2, Expired RDPIII.....
Just wanna sing a song:
When I was just a little boy
I asked my mother what will I be?
Will I be handsome? Will I be rich?
Here's what she said to me
Que vanyuen, vanyuen
Whatever will be, will be
Your Belly is now can see....
Que vanyuen, vanyuen
What will be, will be
Hope you can spot that big cat hiding behind the concrete jungle. I can recall that it's a lot more compelling when I was a small boy - it must have got old or the jungle got too big, I don't know...
View from To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, 2011
A 55-year-old block of flats in a run-down part of Kowloon collapsed, killing at least four people on January 29, 2010.
Relative of one of the victims performed roadside ritual to pacify his soul.
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_tkw_home.html:
Art in station architecture
Artwork Title:
Home
Artist Name:
Leung Mee-Ping (Hong Kong)
Artwork Location:
To Kwa Wan
Artist's Concept:
Tuen Ma Line has brought about significant changes to the To Kwa Wan neighbourhood. Old buildings are replaced by new high-rises. New tenants settle in and old neighbours move away. To those who call this place “home”, what are the implications of urban renewal?
The artwork “Home” is not only a work of visual art. It is a creative process that engaged the community from the conception of the project. A total of 102 To Kwa Wan residents generously shared personal items to illustrate their ideas of “home”. Each coming with a story, these seemingly ordinary objects are all loaded with fond memories and endearing sentiments.
Amidst changes in To Kwa Wan, the artwork “Home” encapsulates the visual imagery of individuals, families and a community in a conceptual framework. Like a time capsule, framed within floor plans of old tenement buildings, it preserves the residents’ homes. “Every object accompanies the growth of a person and a family,” says the artist. “They are material traces of time where individual memories come together as the communal visual culture of an era.”
Location: Ifeng Mansions, Tokwawan Road, Hong Kong
Leica M6-TTL
Leica 35mm Summicron-M ASPH
Arista Premium 400 push to 800
R09 One Shot (1+100)
17:30 min @ 24˚C
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_tkw_home.html:
Art in station architecture
Artwork Title:
Home
Artist Name:
Leung Mee-Ping (Hong Kong)
Artwork Location:
To Kwa Wan
Artist's Concept:
Tuen Ma Line has brought about significant changes to the To Kwa Wan neighbourhood. Old buildings are replaced by new high-rises. New tenants settle in and old neighbours move away. To those who call this place “home”, what are the implications of urban renewal?
The artwork “Home” is not only a work of visual art. It is a creative process that engaged the community from the conception of the project. A total of 102 To Kwa Wan residents generously shared personal items to illustrate their ideas of “home”. Each coming with a story, these seemingly ordinary objects are all loaded with fond memories and endearing sentiments.
Amidst changes in To Kwa Wan, the artwork “Home” encapsulates the visual imagery of individuals, families and a community in a conceptual framework. Like a time capsule, framed within floor plans of old tenement buildings, it preserves the residents’ homes. “Every object accompanies the growth of a person and a family,” says the artist. “They are material traces of time where individual memories come together as the communal visual culture of an era.”
The lady owner of a long gone local jade store.
“回不去的昨天”
她在回憶, 我在回憶她回憶。
這裏是我快樂童年所在地, 現在只剩下不斷褪淡的殘存記憶。
特地回去多次, 找不到兒時所熟識, 甚至連十年前拍下的她, 都留不着任何痕跡...
但我仍然深信, 我的童年是快樂的, 香港也曾經是美好的。
San Shan Road, To Kwa Wan. 2011.
Mundane, banal, maybe; yet it's these corner buildings (of the 50s and 60s) that keep bringing memories of Hongkongers' industriousness and pragmatism in the last century. And they are disappearing...
Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong
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