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Duration 04.02 minutes vertical narratives #1juxtapositions of space and time hyper polished surfaces reflect wealth in rows of designer boutiques endlessly repeating up endless malls escalator as art down on street level it's either Blade Runner close and dense humanity and food stalls reflected in the clusters of neon signs above or wide avenues with once again repeating dried herbal medicine shops shark fin mounds take centre stage on white tiled floors outside on the footpath mounds of dried lizards stretched across bamboo frames spill into the gutter their dulled eyes reflected in the thin stream of water collected from outflow hoses of a thousand air conditioners refrigerator drones chorus down the gothic crumbling cathedral of Queens Road West meanwhile back at the Centre it's all sanitised artificial space colony living descend to the lower levels without ever having to touch the ground or breathe tainted air shop and shop and shop and eat and shop and shop and eat and ....... collective pastime ghost festival, hungry ghost, Ghost in the Shell the dead, the living, Tao-Buddhist fear even ultra architecture can't escape the ghost factor Feng Shui or else! Hong Kong July 2006 |