Strangers in the dark@Hong Kong ArtWalk

ArtWalk Extra
Lane next to 5 Old Bailey Street, Central
Direction from the escalator to Old Bailey Street
(Man with Big Fish: John Batten, event organizer)

Strangers in the dark 暗巷中的陌生人

A dark lane, it is one of the typical urban scene in Hong Kong. When you walk thought it, you may find some strangers walk or swim besides you. They looked wired, with the bodies of half fish and half human, and in old fashion clothing. They are the Hong Kong people I memorize in twenty years before, now they are too strange to remember. The rapid urban development deleted our memory by destroying the dark, dirty and evil old district, including the lane like this. The old strange people in our memory, is as treasure as the creatures in the ocean.

游/走於陰暗小巷，半魚半人的生物，穿著陳年影像中的紅褲子與白布鞋。黑夜中的陌生客，是舊城中的原住民，當年的你與我。收集在腦海內的記憶漸生長出團團珊瑚，華美盛放。但秒速增值的都邑，再不能容忍身上那塊殘缺醜陋的縐縐死皮。

二十年前的人與事，現已太難留住，太難記取。讓這些在城市流浪的陌生記憶，如珍貴的海洋生命被未忘人拼命保留下來。


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