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the original painting

Title: Three Musicians(Musiciens aux masques)

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Time: Summer 1921
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 200.7 x 222.9 cm
Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Artist: Stella and Terence
Time: Spring2011
Medium: Collage
Dimension: 25cm x 25cm
Location: Hostel D 705

‘Hertage’ is inspired by Picasso’s work Three Musicians, as a collage work patched by three main characters and bear on their body heritage.

The name ‘hertage’ is the combination of two words; they are ‘heritage’ and ‘collage’. The work basically originated and inspired by the experiences of listening to music and walking through heritage. Hong Kong is a special place with consistence of western and eastern culture. And this culture has already deeply dug into our minds. When listening to music while walking through heritages in Wan Chai and Central, we feel very satisfy with the mood and atmosphere. As a result, we borrowed the ideas of Picasso and his friends playing music and creating poem to express our feeling.

Hong Kong as a historic city, has a unique culture of mixing of western and eastern elements. It is a city where the west meets the east and and finaly reach a harmonious status. In the process of the city development, including the culture integration, much significant architecture were left. They are known as the heritages of Hong Kong. Heritage serves to shape values, ground aspirations and inspire creativity and a sense of belonging within a community. It contributes to social stability, civic pride and a richer quality of life. “Architectural significance” is currently the only test under the law in Hong Kong when considering legal protection for our built environment, no matter what unique, historical, social or cultural value may be attached to a particular property, group of properties or even a neighborhood. This means that many of our interesting buildings and neighborhoods – the Wanchai Market/Blue House area, the old terraces in Western, as examples – may simply disappear merely because there is no policy or process to facilitate their protection.

But till now, many people still think that heritage conservation is a government issue. It is government that who should take the responsibility to make decisions and take action. But the fact is that heritage conservation is an issue related to every citizen closely. The heritages are just around us but we seem to pay little attention to them. Actually, we have the responsibility and power to make changes. Heritage conservation should be under public control with the public being involved in the process of their identification and stewardship. It can only be realized through more education and awareness. What we concern is not only the tangible things, but also the intangible histories, the social and economical changes of our city. This intangible value, the collective social memory, is not always appreciated until it comes under threat and there is a need to develop a mechanism to identify places, sites and settings to which such value is attached. What we should do is take preventive measures prior to any threats. Only when these heritages are conserved well can we have strong belongings to our city.

The heritages that have been chosen by us in this artwork were Queen’s pier, blue house and old terrace in Wan Chai, King Yin Lei, and the pagoda in Ping Shan Heritage Trail. Among which, the Queen’s Pier have already been demolished. The fragments of the picture of Queen’s Pier were pasted on the man on the right hand side of the Three Musicians, which indicates that Queen’s pier was no longer exits. The blue house and old terrace in Wan Chai were put on the man on the left hand side, which means that they are now under fair conservation but still is not totally invulnerable. On the other hand, King Yin Lei was thought to be the best conserved among all, since the government have set up a reconstruction scheme to activate it.

Between our work and Picasso’s Three Musician, there are many similar points to share when talking about ‘hertage’. We have good faith in Cubism like Picasso. Through flat surface, heritages in three dimensional effect in the photo make everybody who scan through the work feel impressive. As Picasso’s Three Musician, we make use of three characters to represent different stages. The character at the middle place indicates the heritages under best conservation. The character in the left hand side represents some fair heritages conservation project. And lastly, while the character at the right hand side represents the ones who have got worst protection and have suffered from damage or even have been ruined, the shape and all those buildings are in pieces.

On the other hand, we also do share some different point of view from Picasso’s. As many of the heritages are memory in our mind, we did not use full color to cover the body. Instead, we use photos which are cut into pieces to cover the body. That means those are lost and minimized memory. Also, it’s obvious to figure that all foot of all characters are built on the ground with buildings. The position is not a normal body like Picasso’s work. In Hertage, the legs are in different shape and represent the meaning of heritage. The King Yin Lei is chosen to be the best preserved heritage as the government immediately stopped the construction of expensive residential area. The decision made by the government is fast enough to protect collective memory of Hong Kong people.

In concept layer, main differences between Hertage and Three Musician are not huge as Three Musician is the origin of Hertage. And I will explain as follow base on the form, the subject matter, color and mood:

Base on the subject matter, Hertage and Three Musician did not share any similarities. Main character of the work is still three. But base on the clothing, the color tone and the composition of the subject has lots of differences. Hertage did not follow the use of single color to cover up the body. Instead, Hertage had lots of building in different color on the body which makes it attractive and memorable.

Secondly, the form of the work of Three Musician and Hertage had shift from one to another. Three Musicians is a Cubism painting which apply the use of color and shape to make visual effects. Hertage is a work base on the concept and shape or Three Musicians which build tight relation to each other in meaning. However, when the discussion goes to talk about the form, they are two different things. Stick and glue is essential for collage, while painting concern the use of brush and color. The form of Three Musician is oil painting and Hertage is a contemporary collage. As a result, the two work have differences in form.

Mood is an essential factor for art work creation. It is so similar that Hertage and Three Musician depict mood in a usual way. Hertage is a collage which directly depicts the creator’s feeling to an experience in heritage. Three Musician is a painting depict the memory of Picasso with two of his old friend. In Three Musicians, the masked Pierrot palying clarinet and the singing monk holding sheet music are Picasso’s friend, while the one at the center, strumming guitar is Picasso’s stand-in self. The painting is in old Italian comic theater style, called dell’arte. The time of Picasso with his friend and make pore is marvelous then inspire Picasso to make this work. For the case about Hertage, we are inspired by the work as well as the beautiful scenery walking across heritage. The social history, the neighbor relation, the childhood memory of grandma and grandpa, went through my mind.

As time goes by, memories will fade you away. Hertage is inspired by The Three Musicians. I could now imagine. In summer time, Picasso and his friends are in the garden making poem and having wonderful time. They talk about drama, theater and poetry. I wish I could have the same experience. Sitting under blue house sharing with neighbor about current affairs, should be a warm and close community. The subject matter and form of the two works are different, but still, the mood is so similar. Like Chinese Literati painter said: Realistic could not win Shen. We wish that our work could make you feel relax and contribute more to heritage conservation.

Group Project : LAU SHUK NAM (NESCA) 1149499 TSE KA YAN (KAREN) 1153256 TSE MAN WAI (CHELSEA) 1178402

In this essay , the focus would be put on the painting(The Scream by Edvard Munch) and a photograph(The fast by our group) and they would be analyzed according to  various fields, such as, content, color-tone, perspective, medium and intrinsic meaning in the following paragraphs.

CONTENT:

The background of the Scream is reddish sky and the view from a mountain in Norway, and the Fast, is the moving bus and a traffic light on the red which is the symbol of busy lift in Hong Kong. In these two artworks, there is one common method of presenting the background which is using the composition of lines. This composition of lines of two artworks can show the dynamic movement of the background to the viewers. In the Scream, the background is composited by some obvious brushstrokes and continuous lines while for the Fast, the bus is decomposed into many horizontal lines and there is a deliberate extension of the moving bus and some fading out effect at the right of the artwork. The blurred and unclear background can provide a room for the viewers imagine.

Except for the background, the main object of the Fast is a woman in the bottom of the left stands in the traffic island is waiting for the green light switch on and facing the right of the artwork. The viewers can see the lateral side of the woman only. Her facial expression is not clearly seen. It may draw the viewers’ curiosity about what happened in the right of the photograph. In contrast to the woman stand on the traffic island, the action of blocking out the sound pushes insides in the central is the main object. Its head likes a skull and repeats the landscape curves and its body is distorted. The viewers can see its facial expression clearly and feel the anxiety and sorrow from the main object. Both of the main objects are exhibited the half-length of the body.

COLOR-TONE:

They both used warm color to express their emotions and feelings and to spark viewers’ imagination. Munch used non-local color to depict the nature, he used warm and bright colors, liked the reds, oranges and yellows intensively to depict the sunset and with blues, pinks to define the water. Both sky and water seem caught up in an endless swirl echoes artist’s anguish. He tried to depict the colors were screaming and painted the color like real blood. And the Fast also captured the similar warm lights, such as the reds, yellows and some dark lights to present the busy and rapidly life involved some of the emotions which cannot be liberated in our modern society. Therefore, both art works were used similar color tones to depict the situation what the artists wanted to present or interested in.

PERSPECTIVE:

The function of the background and the position of the main object in two artworks is to draw the focus of the viewers. In the Scream, a dark and firm character stands in front of the central part of the colorful and loose background. This big contrast can stick out the main object to the viewers. In the Fast, the viewers can see the similar combination of the background and the main object in order to achieve the similar attempt. Thus, the focusing point of the Scream is the agonized figure (centre) and the Fast is the woman (left). The different in the position of the main object makes the different in the perspective of two artworks. The perspective of the Scream is upon the main object which creates a depth space of the background. In the Fast, the perspective is in the right which creates the intrinsic infinite extension of the background to the viewers.

MEDIUM:

The Scream was used different media, an oil, pastel and casein on cardboard and the oil painting will be analyzed. Within the painting, he met his own stated goal of “the study of the soul, which was to say the study of my own self”. He used oil textures to leave some obvious brushstrokes in order to arouse audiences’ attention and encourage them to explore his inner world. The Fast used photography to present the contemporary and busy life in Hong Kong, since the object and view captured are more closely related to how we see things with our eyes, the camera was a mechanical device that could objectively capture the world without the restraints of place and time. Different mediums have their own advantages to ingratiate different needs of artists.

INTRINSIC MEANING:

In this art work, we try to express and interpret that everything in Hong Kong seems to be a glimpse of feelings as people are overwhelmed by rumors and gossips. People who live in Hong Kong might be protected by a well-constructed city planning. Nonetheless, People have to wear a mask and cope with various kinds of staffs and people which make them suffocate and easy to get sick mentally.

Hong Kong actually is a place of intrigue and a place which money comes first. Ostensibly, everything seems to be in harmony with others, however, if you look deeper, you would see people lost their soul. In this artwork, there is a woman who stands in the traffic island is implied the confusion when people are making decisions even though she is lost and weak-minded. There is a hidden meaning that one has to keep wondering the meaning of life constantly as one has no choice to stop thinking because one lives in a rapidly changing generation in this day and age.

Moreover , People might try to keep themselves in the dark and that is the reason why we set the background about night ,darkness and black and it shows the character is contemplating .We captured this moment as it brings the meaning of the rhythm of Hong Kong life style is very fast and it’s about speed, quick movement and change.

On the other hand , in the paintings – The Scream, it also shows the sorrow, depression and dissatisfaction towards one’s life. Some say the character is the painter (Edvard Munch) himself and he tried to voice his intra-personal feelings out by this painting as the audience would feel the way he felt by the compositions , colors ,lines and spaces used in this painting.

Both of the artworks show relatively negative attitudes towards life and they also reflect one’s in-depth through the facial expressions of the subject matters. Also, the viewers could perceive both of them show the feelings directly and indirectly which hinges on how the viewers perceive and judge the artwork.

All in all, both art and life are something hard to define and no one could exactly hit the nail on the head about what is life and art. Yet, it depends on how people perceive and that’s the amazing power of art – a room left for further imagination.

Attachment:

(1)   Edvard Munch – The Scream

 

Artist	Edvard Munch
Year	1893
Type	Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard
Dimensions	91 cm × 73.5 cm (36 in × 28.9 in)
Location	National Gallery, Oslo

(2)   Art-work

 

 

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Group Project: Sandwich updates Vincent Van Gogh 's Bedroom in Arles

Group project

Small house of Hong Kong People, 29 cm x 35.5 cm, poster color and acrylic color on canvas, 2011

by

Lo Wing Yan, Jenny

Wu Shuk Wa,Marina

Yeung Yan Ki,Yanki

'Bedroom in Arles’ was painted by Vincent Van Gogh who was a Post-Impressionist painter in 1889. The medium is oil on canvas and the size is 72 cm × 90 cm (28.3 in × 35.4 in). It contains short brushstrokes, brilliant colors, uncommon perspective and real-life subject matter. This painting depicts yellow house which was Van Gogh’s bedroom. So there are double-bed, desk, chairs, photographs and some necessities of daily life. Our updated Hong Kong version ‘Small house of Hong Kong People’ (29 cm x 35.5 cm, poster color and acrylic color on canvas) was inspired by recent housing situation which was faced by Hong Kong people. Our aim is to evoke the awareness of the housing problem and the social problem in Hong Kong. It is well known that the housing problem is getting serious in Hong Kong. Many people cannot have a normal size of flat or do not even have their own flats since the prices of a flat is too expensive to afford. We want to indicate the social problem of extreme disparity between the rich and the poor which can be intimated in the poster of housing advertisement.

There are some similarities and differences including similar composition, different aims, objects, tone of colors and mood.

Firstly, the themes of two versions are similar. Both of them are depicting the bedroom. However, Van Gogh’s version is depicting his own bedroom while the updated Hong Kong version is depicting the extremely small home of Hong Kong people.

Secondly, the composition is similar to the original version. Since the location of the double-bed, window and desk are not changed, the composition is similar. Also, there is something on the wall in both paintings. However, the style of the bed is different. In the updated version, the carrier of the bed is made by metal rather than wood. Also, the window is covered by the beautiful view of Victoria Harbor.

Furthermore, the housing advertisements on the wall instead of the photography of family members show the hope of owning a better living condition. The green window represents the traditional style of tenement in 1950s -1970s in Hong Kong.

Moreover, there is a television instead of the water container on the table at the corner. A folding table and chairs are added to the middle of the painting to show the crowded life of Hong Kong people. There are some boxes to store their belongings and newspaper for selling to earn their livings. And the book shelves at the left hand corner are to represent the knowledge. On the book shelves, there are some Chinese books which reveal that the owner of this house is from Hong Kong. Since this room is the whole house for the owner, it shows that he wants to equip him better to buy a better house in the future. Unfortunately, the book shelves are put at a high corner of the house; it is not easy to get the books. So it implied that it is hard to buy a better house in the future.

In addition, the recycling bags, rubbish bin, chopsticks on the folding table and slippers on the floor are the elements representing Hong Kong people since they are easy to find in Hong Kong. These are the similarities and differences between these two paintings in terms of subject matter.

For the use of colors, the two works both used primary color as the main color in the painting. For Van Gogh’s, many primary light colors such as blue in the wall and yellow for the bed are used in Van Gogh’s painting. And in our work, blue is also used as the main color in the wall and red used for the bed. However, the gradation of color is different between the two paintings. The one of Van Gogh has a brighter value of color than our work. The colors used in our work are darker. Also, black and secondary color such as green is more frequently used in our painting. Compare with Van Gogh’s yellow house, the use of color with the crowded space in our work provides a sadder mood then Van Gogh’s one. Besides, there is color subtext cannot be finding in Van Gogh’s work that the color of red, blue and white used in our work can be a representation of Hong Kong spirit.

Next, for the form, the two paintings both use lines to depict the sense of 3-dimension. The two works both addressed the form of object by outlining. However, the objects in our work contains a stronger sense of 3-dimension than Van Gogh’s. This difference is caused by the use of color. A more sharp contrast in color can be found in the objects in our painting such as the paper boxes and desk. Although there is also different tone of color in Van Gogh’s work to show the 3 dimension, the color contrast is not as clear as in our work. Therefore Van Gogh’s work is less three-dimensional than our work.

And for the representation of space, these two works used same method of one point prospective, the ways that lines are joined together at one point to create a sense of deepness. Also, the two painting both use the descending of object size to create the sense of deepness and space. However, our painting owned a feel that contains less space than Van Gogh’s original painting. This feeling is mainly caused by the number of objects in the painting. The space is filled by many objects such as desk in the middle and the bed is enlarged to dominate more space in the painting. In contrast, Van Gogh’s bedroom contains fewer objects. This created the difference of space between the two paintings.

For the brushstroke, the brushstroke in Van Gogh’s work is shorter and tidier than our work. Also, the brushstrokes Van Gogh painted go mainly into the same direction. It provided a mood of quiet and harmony. However in our work, the brushwork is not as tidy and in the same direction as Van Gogh’s one. This difference gives a more unstable mood in our painting then in Van Gogh’s.

Finally for the mood, our painting contains a sadder mood then Van Gogh’s work. Due to the use of dark color and the composition of object which formed a shallow space, a kind of tension is produced in our painting while in Van Gogh’s one, the space is larger and it is in a warm, comfort color tone of light blue and yellow, Van Gogh’s painting gives a sense of relax rather than being pressured. The mood is different from the others because of the color and composition.

To conclude, the updated Hong Kong version is based on ‘Bedroom in Arles’ painted by Van Gogh. However, the differences in visual elements between the two paintings convey various aims. ‘Bedroom in Arles’ tries to show the mood of quiet and harmony. But for the Hong Kong version, is to depict the housing and social problem in Hong Kong. We hope to alarm HongKongers and evoke their awareness on this social problem by depicting the poor housing condition.

Group Presentation Project: From “The persistence of Memory” to “The Melting City” By NANA, Rebecca, Wingki

By Chiu Kin Yu, Rebecca
Ho Lai Na, NANA
Kwok Wing Ki, Wingki

Title: The Persistence of Menory
Artist: Salva Dali
Year:1931
Type: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 24 cm x 33cm

Title: The Melting City

Artist: NANA,Wingki, Rebecca

Year: 2011

Type: Acrylic on canvas

Dimension: 20.5 cm x 30 cm

As enlightened by the great contrasts created in Dali's original painting, we have created The Melting City. The theme of our work is a reflection on the policy of the $6000 giveaway to all citizens who aged above 18 by he HKSAR.

The naming of this painting emphasizes the idea that citizens no longer trust and support the government since the policy is even worse than the previous financial budget.

This issue has aroused people's awareness in the society. There are extreme differences of the points of view held by different people toward this financial budget. Some people are happy for earning $6000 because it can improve their living. While, some people argued that this policy creates social discrimination between permanent residents, new immigrants and emigrants. It also aggravates inflaton and conflicts between the rich and the poor. In this essay, we will talk about the meanings of our painting in detail.

To start with, we would like to introduce the similarities and the differences between the two painings. We have changed the subject matters but kept te same composition and the melting and rotten effect of the subject matters. For example, the clocks are replaced by the coins; Mr. John Tsang Chun-wah, the Financial Secretary, replaces the dead bird; the natural landscape in the right corner is replaced by the Legislative council; the clock which is covering by ants is replaced by a rotten apple; and the use of colour in the sky is changed.

There are two similarities in the both paintings. We have not changed the compositio of the painting. We think that the existence of different subject matters have their own function. Each of them is representating different meanings. Therefore, we do not change the position, number and the size of the subject depicted. Besides, we borrow the idea of the soft melting clocks as we believe this is the most significant feature to tell the main idea of Dali's painting. It is a contrast of hardness and softness. This is indicating the understanding of time is no longer solid, implicitly meaning the collapse of "persistence".

The difference is that we use several melting coins instead of the clocks. The melting effect is to convey the message that the $6000 will run out quickly. It is not long-lasting. After a short period of time, the social problems will be exposed as they have not been solved. The coins mean that this policy may be a wrong decision of giving money directly to the citizens. There may be possibility to creat a bad habit - the government need to giveaway money to the citizens every year. It is because if the HKSAR do not giveaway any subsidy next time, more critics and social disorders will come out. Just like the situation of Macau, the government of Macau is now regretting the wrong beginning she has started.

We remain the withered tree in our painting without any leaves or flowers. The withered tree illustrates that the policy upsets the citizens and thus there is no hope for recovering. The bending coin on the branch creates a depressing feeling, further indicates that the withered of the tree is led by the ineffective and failing policy. Therefore, the melting coins are to emphasize money cannot within slove the problems. It may be effective to aid the dissatisfaction of the citizens within a very short time. However, more serious social problems are likely to break out.

There is a figure of Mr. Tsang Chun-wah, the Financial Secretary, which is drawn ina cartoon way to replace the dead bird. He is suffering from a fallen coin. After Mr. Tsang has announced the $6000 giveaway policy, there was a great resound from the whole society. The fallen coin is too heavy for Mr. Tsang tc carry and even pulls him down. His fall down indicates that he cannot tackle the negative impacts caused by the giveaway policy. The facial expression of Mr. Tsang shows that he does not understand the lower class's difficulties of earning a living. He can only look at the fallen coin but he cannot do anything. This figure creates an ironic effect of the diappointment of his decision and distrust of his ability.

At the left corner, the clock with ants is replaced by a rotten apple with a worm inside. The rotten apple is a little trick we play trick we play on the products of Apple. We use a rotten apple as a subject matter becuase we hope the audience can think of something related to it and guess what it stands for. The initial idea of giving $6000 to every eligible citizen is to help ease the temporary difficulties of loivelihood. However, the policy worsens the social and economic situation of citizens but benefits the businessmen. It is because the giveaway of $6000 will probably increase inflation as stimulating consumption on luxury. For example, some young adults, who have not developed a sound concept of managing money, the may just want to spend the $6000 on buying an iPhone or an iPad.Then, who will be the winner in this case? Also, the rotten apple means the policy upsets Hong Kong economic prospects because it brings no actual benefits on improving the economic situation. The worm is reffered to the sales of the foreign company as taking advantages to expand the market share in Hong Kong in order ti earn more.

The rocky mountain at the back is changed into the Legislative Council, implicitly indicates the political management crisis led by the disturbance of the financial budget. This event reveals the secret worries of management by the current government officers. She cannot fulfill the needs of the citizens. For example, there are young schools leavers that are aged below 18 cannot be benefited from this policy while they are a part of the work force.

The last one is the dark sky. In the original painting, there is a part of brightness in the sky creating a hopeful feeling, Disappointingly, we do not think that there is a hope for the future of Hong Kong. so we draw the sky without any light but blue with some black colour.

To conclude, the orginal painting painting by Dali has brought us a rethink of the persistence of time, questioning for the existence of eternity. In our painting, we try to express how we feel about money, as a tool to tackle problems, and the concern of our society and its harmony. The whole painting is giving a lifeless feeling and expressing a kind of dissatisfaction of the current situation. We hope that this painting can also arouse concern and rethink of the society.

group project - The HongKonger (The Thinker)

Introduction

Auguste Rodin The Thinker (c. 1880)

Artist: Auguste Rodin

Year: 1880

Type: Bronze

Location: Musée Rodin, Paris

Dimensions: H. 71.5 cm

 

The HongKonger

Artist: Teka YIU, Lung Fai

Tabitha LI, Cheuk Wing

WONG, Wai Kwan

Year: 2011

Type: living creature

Dimensions: H. 73.5 cm

Originally, 'The Thinker' - exhibited in Copenhagen in 1888 as 'The Poet', it is a part of “The Gates of Hell”, created by Auguste Rodin.

  And our art work is called “The HongKonger”, which is trying to represent the experience of HongKongers. There are several similarities and differences between those two art works. First, they both are with the male subject. Also they are showing us that they are thinking hardly and trying to understand the reality of life. Furthermore, we are also trying to depict a man in sober thought who are battling with a powerful internal struggle

 

  However, there are some differences. ‘The Thinker’ is sitting nude upon a stone. ‘The HongKonger’ is not only sitting with clothes on air, but also carries a lot of items on his body, each item is representing a symbol. Also, different items have different meaning to the ‘The HongKonger’. Although both art works are thinking hardly, but ‘The HongKonger’ is only thinking about how to survive in the modern Hong Kong society, not as ‘the thinker’ is thinking the meaning of life and death.

  Our art work is representing a HongKonger who need to deal with a lot of challenges in his/her whole life time. However, ‘The HongKoner’ is also showing the struggling that why each HongKonger need to spend his/her whole life time achieve many challenges. 

Love is an vital part in our lives. Since dress can be used as a symbol of women. We use dress represents women affairs always get the attention from man. As a Chinese saying goes, ‘every successful man have women’s support at the back.’ It is believed that although is not successful, man always concern about women in their entirely lives. 

We put Hang Seng index at the crest, as we found that heat beats are similar to index in the stock market. As we know, Hong Kong is an international finical centre, many people, namely businessmen, students or even housewives are interested in stock transaction. So, if there is any increasing or decreasing in stock market, it will definitely affect the heart beat of Hong Kong people. 

Tie is a necessary item in a suit. Wearing suit usually give us an impression of successful. In a suit, a tightly tie not only represents formal and professional, but also gives us stressful. Picture that the tie is rounding your neck, the pressure is so heavy and unavoidable.  If we pursuing in wearing suit, we cannot ignore the stress from the tie.

If diamond is the favour of women, watch certainly is one of the items that men addict to. Some people say that men love watches because these can represent the privileged position or economic status. A popular Hong Kong artist Eason Chan once use watches as the theme of   a song.  He tries to show how people put effort in pursuing money and power but forget other things else, namely time. Ironically, the original purpose of wearing watch is for knowing the time, however, people nowadays use it as a symbol of  privileged position. They use a life of time to pursuit what they want but ignore the time showed from watch.

Graduation certificate is an important thing in many people life because it almost represents our career. Many people say that graduation certificate is a guarantee of getting a job. Although there are some exceptional cases that low qualification but high salary job, people prefer to get a high qualification in order to ensure they can have a better future.

Since the value of Hong Kong dollars remain unchanged, but the China RMB keeps raise in a rapid rate, Hong Kong dollars seems to be a cheaper currency now. However, many goods in Hong Kong were purchase from mainland; therefore it was a main reason that makes inflation. Here we have the glasses that covered with RMB, it makes people only see RMB, represents Hong Kong people only value on RMB rather than HKG, USD and so on.

Every Hongkongers usually have a same target that is to get a dream house. However, the price of the lands and the flats keeps a constant rising rate. We can say that we are working for the property owners for our whole life; a home becomes a burden for all of us. Therefore, we have a hat that built an apartment on the top of it.  It symbolized this house burden in our life with an apartment suppressing our hat.

The HongKonger holds a pacifier in the mouth, which represents the HongKongers need to take care of the kids besides those pressures. To have a child, we should input the time and money for him/her. Besides the physical requirements, we should spend money on the education, hobbies, and time for conversation to ensure him/her has a healthy life. Once we have a child, the responsibility will never end. Therefore this burden will follow us until we were died.

Transportation is a great expenditure in the Hongkongers’ daily life. Since our transportation network was monopolized by several corporations, the controls the price of the mass transportation methods. In these few years, the transport fee persists on a high level, and the fuel cost also rises rapidly according to the shortage of fuel supply in the world. Therefore, neither mass transport or to own a car were not a wise choice in Hong Kong. Wheels under the HongKonger’s foot were the symbols that the Hongkongers wants to own a car, may be they also wants to have a wheel on the foot. Therefore they can travel to everywhere with no constrictions.

Finally, the Hongkonger sitting on air because when to show that many people are fighting to the above items alone and without support. May be this is a traditional Chinese culture. In Chinese society, men is powerful and the main support of the whole family. Men usually think that women are useless relatively so that they need to bear all the thing alone. Although times flies and the society changes a lot, it is believed that men still have some kind of concept leave in their mind. 

  we use black and white to represent a mood that although some hongkongers already have a material life. they have a great car, a high salary job, and a big beautiful house. In fact, however, their life are not colourful, because those materials are not exactly they really want.

Conclusion

 

All in all, in this project through different symbols to represent different challenges that each hongkoner need to deal with. Furthermore, we want to show that all hongkongers, we are also part of them, just like 'the thinker' always need to struggle with a lot of problems. However, we not have a chose that although we don’t want a complicated life, we still need to spend our whole life time for pursuing a material life.  This is the internal struggling which we are talking about.