Tessera 紙皮石
Tessera 紙皮石
An iconic mosaic-style flooring commonly found in old-style 冰室(bing1 sat1), directly translating to “ice rooms”, popular during my parents’ generation. My interest in Tessera stems from my pseudo-nostalgia for the "Old Hong Kong Aesthetic". As someone born in 2004, this element of interior design should not evoke any significant memories but due to my present exile, I have become increasingly nostalgic of “the old Hong Kong”, for it seems to represent what I had lost; what the city had lost, due to the increasingly tight control of the CCP that threatens to erase our Hongkonger identity.
Oil on Canvas
50x100cm
bad lino prints on various papers
Lino Prints on Greyboard, Card and various Papers