Hong Kong–June 8, 2023

Laundry Time

I found a fairly nice (but small) laundromat near the hotel. [Memo to self: Kimberley Street and Kimberley Road are not the same. This is why you got lost five or six times trying to find the place.]

Hey, they have a bitcoin ATM. And with Elon’s picture on it, so it must be 100% legit, right?

They even accept multiple cryptocurrencies!

While waiting for the laundry to finish, I wandered around the area and got these pictures of graffiti and adverts:

The very model of a “Hong Kong Back Alley.”

M+

Most of the remaining pictures are from M+, Hong Kong’s global museum of visual culture. The first few are views inside the building and the area surrounding it.

You can see the Palace museum from M+

A video display of the donors to the museum

Artwork by Yayoi Kusama

This work consists of one million black business cards; the title is Monument to the people we’ve conveniently forgotten (I hate you) by Heman Chong.

The Letter writing Project: this installation had three places for you to write letters (standing up, sitting down, or kneeling on a pad) and put them for others to read. Yes, I wrote one, but I sealed it.

Coolest title for an artwork.

The following were painted on triangular slats, so they show something different depending on where you are standing:

More art!

This set is Zhao Bandi and the Panda

Stratégie en chambre

This work was done by artist Wang Du in 1998 during the Kosovo peace talks.

Back to more art.

The Second State (Geng Jianyi, 1987) captures a face mid-laugh

Pandora’s Box (Song Haidong, 1989)

The following is Whitewash, by AiWeiWei. He dipped ancient Cheinse earthenware jars in white paint to obscure their surface decoration. Over the years, some of the paint has peeled away, revealing the original surface. “This sugggests not only that the past can never be completely whitewashed, but also that the act of whitewashing itself can become a part of history.”

Yet more art...

Urban Peasants (Liang Shuo, 1999-2000)

This was part of a display that had a video showing the history of emoji.

The Great Pageant Show (Holly Lee, 1997)

I think the following is part of the museum dedicated to design.

More art by Yayoi Kusama