Family Production 家庭作業

Family Production summarized my thinking about the red, white, and blue plastic sheet material which is also a kind of exploration over the topic on the spirit of Hong Kong for the past 5 months. I want to make a piece of work that represents the special quality of Hong Kong. The multi purpose prefabricated metal bar and the durability of red, white, and blue plastic sheets represents the character of flexibility and practicality of Hong Kong people. The shinning plastic beads drapes down to form a metaphorical time tunnel which connects the past with the present. Families after families are being constructed, though they are temporary yet all of them are great to the individual. Red, white and blue plastic sheets remind me of the cottage industries of the 1960s and 1970s. Be it assembling plastic flowers or stringing beads, everybody, young and old, male and female, every member of the family partook in the assembly line, striving to make a living. This was how our family is constructed.

家庭作業這件作品終結了我過去五個多月對紅、白、籃膠布的反思，亦是對香港精神的探索。在這裏我想做一件能表達香港精神的作品。萬能角鐵的無限可能性加上紅白籃膠布的能耐，像徵着我們香港人靈活多變又實際的性格。閃閃生輝的珠簾形成一條通往過去或未來的時光隧道，建構出一間又一間暫時但偉大的家。紅白藍膠布這物料令我想起六、七十年代的家庭式工業。不論是穿膠花或是串珠仔，無論男女老少，家裡的每一個成員都成為這生產線的一份子，一點一滴地去努力奮鬥，我們的家就是這樣建成的。

30,000 plastic beads, fish wire, metal modular bars, red white blue plastic sheet, & paint   
500 (L) x 300(W) x 440cm(H)

HK Heritage Museum, HK

2005