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.