Inspiring you on your own journey . . .
The feeling of festival is in the mid-autumn air. Flags and banners adorn the streets in the small neighbourhood of Tai Hang on Hong Kong Island in preparation of the imminent event. Once a village, Tai Hang retains much of its old nature. Despite the towering apartment blocks, it is still laid out on a […]
Walking down Shanghai Street, you note the old red brick building that was once the engineer’s office of the Yau Ma Tei Pump Station. The building marks your transition into the neighbourhood that it once served. All around it, newer buildings rise up out of the concrete. Shops selling cooking equipment line both sides of […]
Since the dawn of civilization, humans have felt compelled to raise structures to their gods. Before this, they modified things in nature and worshipped Mother Earth. This chain of events explains the development of votive structures. Starting with simple offerings placed in nature, places of worship evolved into small shrines, then large stone structures and […]
The dusty polluted road is choked up with traffic. As you sit in the torn backseat of a well-used and beat up taxi you view the traffic crawling on the busy section of road you have been stuck on for the last few minutes. Strange three-wheeled tuk-tuk like vehicles that seem to have been thrown […]
