Exploration

It’s pretty rare that I take time off from the studio, as I find having this much time to focus on my work again is a great opportunity. That being said, I’ve realized that I haven’t done too much exploration of the urban and rural areas outside of my daily commute. Like when in studio, it’s amazing what you can find when you dedicate time to something – and especially if it gives right back to your work.

As you’ll hopefully see in the following pictures, Hong Kong is so visually diverse. You see it all here – the modern city core, the old villages, the farms, the middle class residential life, all somehow within a conjoining transit system.  It feels like a collage of different time periods, with entirely different people throughout.

Outside of the more populated areas and into the villages:

 Some funny signage on route to a village

 And just a lack of visible signage

 

The bus stop, marked by the flag

 

Dogs are usually strays here, though I would assume this one is not

There are stray dogs everywhere

Like I said, everywhere

Into the more modern areas:

The 10 floor mall

In the urban areas it's not uncommon to find outdoor gyms! 

 'descend into horse ride position'

Yes, that is a giant outdoor tic tac toe game in the middle of the 'gym'!

Sundays here are great. They are the one day the local care workers typically from the Philippines  have off. You'll see the workers gathering in parks, streets, or anywhere they can find. They'll be gathered for outdoor Church, or dancing on the streets.

Koi in a man made pool - they always seem to be hungry and come towards any humans in the hope that you have food for them

Night time exploration

 

Ok! Back to the studio! But first, breakfast!

 

(Chinese people are generally pretty small)

 

 Followed by snack!

 

Getting back to the kite

 If you didn't already know, I can't cut anything straight, especially not flimsy fabric

 Finito. After some testing, I determined the fabric was far to loosely wrapped around the frame to fly

So onto a new, lighter weight frame (took about five minutes to construct this one, you get faster at things once you've done some preliminary work)

Time to switch focus back to the plexiglass work for a moment - but first, dunch (lunch + dinner)! This meat mountain cost me 20 HKD (under 3 Canadian dollars)

 

Back to work - reusing the ruined original to trace out the new one. Smart right?

 The newly stenciled work next to the original, less the vinyl

 Next up, spray paint, but I had to watch students dressed as Pandas performing on the main floor first!

After the studio I started my commute home and instead of taking the train I walked. I'm glad I did, because on the way I was given free cotton candy, served on a chop stick! Thanks Zero Zero, whatever you are!