Two years at alma mater; associated with it for half a century; and it’s 100 years old this year. Enough reason for a truly worthwhile centennial celebration. Here shown with the school principal Fiona Wong; former HKO director Lam Chiu-ying; my business school mate Sherman Lai; music collaborator Dr Ng Yin-ming; and classmates from the same year. Plus artwork ‘Fig Tree’ by Prof Ho Siu-kee, alumnus and my sculpture teacher. It’s made from the fallen tree at school compound that came to symbolise King’s College for god knows how many years and still does, and was sold successfully at dinner auction. Congrats, and heartwarming bliss to reconnect with friends not seen for some time.
Reliving the high school years and school musical festival days. Something we haven’t done for decades! Here I’m with Dr Ng Yin-ming and Dr Lam Tak-sum, respectively one and two years my junior, jamming music on a mostly Schubert fare: A die Musik, Ave Maria, Die Forelle (the trout), Standchen (serenade) and ‘Wohin?’, plus O del mio dolce ardor (Gluck). Look forward to doing some Chinese songs next time.
Sculpting myself — a class under the excellent guidance of Prof Ho Siu Kee @_siu_kee_ . It’s good going back to the basics like human anatomy and facial features’ proportions. Reminds me of M C Escher’s hand —- drawing itself, and get lost in which is the subject and which is object. The take home lesson is one can at once underestimate and overestimate by pretty much.
A chance encounter at the gallery, a chat over coffee, and a couple of Q&As over mobile phone, gives rise to this story of art and science in a nutshell. Thank you Principal Chang. @yrellag_gallery
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Bits and pieces, recyclables, readymades - her favourite materials. As well as mine. But she goes one up. Meet Connie Lau. Visitors to her show, now at Yrellag Gallery, would enjoy the time spent in figuring out where this cardboard bit or that piece might have come from, while not losing sight of the overall idea. As the saying goes, an artwork is a success simply if visitors spend 10 minutes in front of it. In that sense, Connie has achieved much. @yrellag_gallery
Birthday boys of the month. Known these chaps since at least college days and stayed connected even though we went down different paths. A hearty meal, empty bottles, then what a surprise — birthday buns! Wish you all well.
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「淬練」一個漫長的過程…世界行得好快，我哋選擇慢慢來—— 研究、觀察、交流、創作。 8組藝術家逐步展開🤝第一階段合作研究，呈現各自感知、提問和連結世界不同方式。
𝑪𝑼𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮 is a process…While the world moves fast, we choose to slow down—through research, observation, exchange, and creating.
Across 8 artist groups, we share the evolving research inquiries — each a different approach to sensing, questioning, and relating to the world.
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淬練 | 𝑪𝑼𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮
🤝合作研究 Collaborative Research Inquiry (1/8)
✨𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑰𝒗𝒂𝒏 𝒁𝒐𝒆
@leeboonying@jerryng_____@belowshelter@wongweihimphoto@chu_let
➡️ 研究主題 Research Theme:
—— 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 ——
A speculative system for observing temporal and ecological disturbance. This project examines how human activity shapes the environment over time.
The group cultivates a hybrid “growing substance” that evolves continuously. It explores how states of imbalance reveal alternative ways of engaging with the environment.
一個用於觀察時間性與生態擾動的試驗系統。探討人類活動如何隨時間塑造環境。團隊培育出一種持續演變的混合「生長物質」，並進一步探索失衡狀態如何揭示與環境互動的其他可能方式。
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Visual Design @hokee_hannah
Went to Rugby Sevens at Kai Tak for the second year and it was no less exhilarating. It was a bright day with sunlight coming through, coupled with heat, humidity, sweat, shouting, honking, chants, drums and endless energy. HK won the Melrose Men, while the grand finales were between New Zealand and Australia for women and between South Africa and Argentina. Exciting because it’s fast paced and all winning teams today finished coming from behind. People seemed mostly to survive on beer, and beer alone.
This truly is a surprise gathering hosted by Caleb Fong, my HK Observatory colleague and graduate school mate, and his spouse Florence, back from Canada. The acquaintance has been for many decades. The surprise is that, except for the hosts, nobody knew whom were coming and nobody knew whom the special guest(s) (is that me?) was even after the event, except that all are associated with HKO. In the picture are, from left, Edwin Lai, together with whom we spent many days and nights battling testy weather at the forecasting office; Leung Wing-no, a public figure that needs no introduction; Yeung King Kay, colleague since our air pollution meteorology and WMO/BAPMoN days, and his spouse (also a longtime acquaintance); and last but not least, Mdm Mary Cheung, a Miss HK, spouse of the late Peter Li 李忠琛 (who hired me), and now a coaching and etiquette consultant. An evening of warmth, fond memories and gorgeous food.
Feature story by Mr Terence Cheung 張灼祥 校長 (former principal of Diocesan Boys’ School) on Xi Xi’s ‘I City’ 西西《我城》illustrations/paintings exhibition at Yrellag Gallery.
祥看｜五十年後回頭看，我城的虛與實#https://apps.orangenews.hk/app/share/VGdjWlo
