Hon-Pro 通州街天光墟 2

Target: Tung Chau Street-Dawn Market
目標：通州街天光墟

Theme: To re-define the terms "memory" and "value" through the Dawn Market in Tung Chau Street
主題：透過「通州街天光墟」的物品，把寶物、回憶、價值重新定位

Title: The day before sunrise
題目：天光之前

Media: Reproduction
媒界： 物件重組

Question: How do people value the importance of something? Is it depending on its market value or outlook appearence?
問題： 我們是否以物件的新舊、市場的價值來衝量其重要性？
（後話）市區重建: 我們是否以建築物的新舊、市場的價值來衝量其重要性？

Aim: We should treasure everything no matter it is life or not.
目的：希望人人都懂得珍惜，不要輕易放棄，無論那是有生命或無生命的東西

Others: Sham Shui Po is one of the most poorest districts in Hong Kong. People living there are very poor. I believe that it is one of the reason why stuffs there are really cheap. We should care for the needy. For example, the low income families, vagrants, oldest, scavenge person, the minorities...etc. Most of the sellers in the Dawn market are poor. They work very eraly at around 3a.m-6a.m everyday in order to avoid being arest by the police. People will not care or recognise them as they are work before sunrise.
深水埗是香港最貧窮的地區之一，那裡生活的人大多數是一些低收入家庭，我想深水埗的貨品比其他地區便宜都是因為要迎合大眾的需要。那裡有很多被忽略的人和 物，e.g.低收入家庭、流浪者、拾荒老人、長者、性工作者、少數族裔人士...在天光墟經營買賣的“商人”多數是一些生活在低下階層的人。他們活躍於清晨時份，一個大眾都正在熟睡的時段；當大眾紛紛起來活動，他們便開始默默離開，被人忽略。很多地方都有天光墟，選擇通州街天光墟是因為那裡的東西都是二手 的，可循環再用。

Artist statement: It's all about history and memory. What are their value? Where could they been?
簡介：它們都是歷史與回憶的見證。但它們的價值在哪？它們該何去何從？

Process:
I'll visit and buy somthing in the Dawn market in Sham Shui Po. Goods are being repaired and reproduced. They are used to be useful and valuable to somebody, somewhere or sometime. In fact, it's important to understand the story behind the goods through interviewing the sellers there.
探訪在天光墟擺檔的檔販，在他們檔攤買一些還有市場價值的物品。那些舊物對於曾經擁有過它們的人來說本來就是有價值的回憶。我會把舊物修補、翻新，再重新包裝，並重組屬於他／它們的回憶、故事及價值。

Opening hour: 4a.m-6a.m
天光墟開放時間： 4a.m-6a.m