Position?
Value?

in progress

 

Title: Why are they have been here?

stands for: Why they were in the Sham Shui Po Dawn Market?

Why they are there at home?

my work

 

Title: Why are they have been here?

Artist Statement:

每天零晨四點至七點
我在深水埗天光墟遊走
藉意把回憶和價值重新修補
聽著失落的聲音等待新的一天

I went to the Dawn Market in Sham Shui Po everyday in mid-night at around4a.m – 7a.m.
I desire to search for memories and values there in order to repair them
I listen and record sound of lives, waiting for a new day 

Media: Mixed media

Description:

This is what I've done recently but not yet finished. I use white cardboard to creat a home. This is the home for the goods I collected in Dawn Market. The furniture are only white in color with black outline. The unified color structure helps to guide audiences to search for goods and stories. Goods will be placed in a significant location so as to tell story about them or lives about a family.For example,1) an Adult's magazine is placed in between the child's story books. It is because Dad dunt want Mum to discover this. 2) Baby Tom's hand writing is very ugly, because he uses a very big pencil for writing.etc.

Most of the goods I bought in the Dawn Market are still uasble and new. The title "Why are they have been here?" is a question, asking for the location of the goods. The goods in the Dwn Market were throw away by people. They have been collected by the Dawn Market street hawkers. In fact, they are still very new and valuabe but they used to be placed on the floor in the Dawn Market. I wonder why they were there! I try to guest about the story behind them as well as to let audience think about whether the goods are rubish or not.

:D

 

http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/nume_is_introdu.html

Nume is introducing a whole new range of the cardboard play-objects. Besides the Playhouse and the Igloohouse there is a cardboard washing machine and oven to furnish the playhouse and cardboard elements to create 3-dimensional structures.
Nume thinks of cardboard as an ecological material with a limited life span, that can be recycled when the children grow and the objects are no longer used. It is also light, easy to transport and simple to fold away for storage.
The white surface allows endless interpretative solutions; it is a pure starting point on which to express ones creativity and imagination, leaving the child with infinite possibilities of activity and interaction.

Title: Wound repairing

Title: Wound repairing in Dawn Market



1. Record sound for how I repair / reproduce the 2nd handed goods
2. To let audience imagine the process of how I repair / reproduce them 
3. Show the original look by photos + present look



NO video X

Wound: Mentally + Physically

Number of goods:47 (represents the opening time in Dawn Market 4a.m-7a.m) 

"Wound repairing" is in present continuous tense. It's because the recording is looping the sound from the reparing action. I'll take photos mainly forcus in parts of the objects. They are "wound" that going to be repaired. Why did people forgive something easily? It is because they exaggerate their defect rather than treasure. I'll present it like a “畫鬼腳”

 

Add a video??????????

 

Parts of my HP is about story telling. I think I can use "Stop Motion" to make a video(the technique is easy to handle for me). The theme is about how I repair / re-produce the 2nd handed goods brought from the Dawn Market. So at last all the goods will reborn as audience can see the before and after of them during the show. Here are some reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QeGLUgN9QI&feature=relmfu

e.g I will let the girl in the 寫真集 wear clothes. To use the words from the "GAG music book" and re-organize them to form new sentences.

Home----feel free to touch me, arrange me 2

Title:
Home: Feel free to touch me or re-arrange me

Media:
Mixed media

Artist Statement:
The 2nd handed goods in the Dawn Market like orphans living in an orphanage, waiting for their new parents. A home is needed for them to escape from reality and receive parental care. I gather them together to form a new family. Audience are encouraged to touch and re-arrange them. Their exstence become meaningful while the use of their frequency increase.

Process:
1. I will buy the 2nd handed goods from the Dawn Market
2. Clean and repair / re-produce them
3. Give them a re-birth date lable
4. Gather them to form a new family, displays like a home
5. Audience are welcomed to touch and re-arrange them
6. A recording will be played to let audience experience lives in the market

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Initially, I decided to display my work like a“格仔舖”, and sell/give them to others after show. However I find that the importance for the 2nd handed goods(or any other things) is to let people realize their existence. They will not mean anything while they are being ignored. In contrast, their exstence become meaningful while the use of their frequency increase.

Home----feel free to touch me, arrange me 1

Everyday in mid-night, the Dawn Market in Tung Chau Street becomes a dynamic "super market". After a few visits, what I can find there?

1. People without home

2. People without love

3. Eyes with hope

4. GOODs

5. Sound

The Dawn Market I visited is located in Tung Chau Street in Sham Shui Po, where it is home for the street-sleepers.I wonder where were their families. The name "street-sleeper" seems to distinguish them from people who live with families. Sometimes, people may treat them as beggars rather than street-sleepers. They will not care their lives and what they wear, because they will not even willing to spend their time to pay close attention to the anonymous person. Do they only have the equal status with the lower-class society?

When I asked people whether they have heard of The Dawn Market. The answer is usually "no". Actually I have heard it before, but I have never imagined that what is it looked like. I tried to understand it through internet before going there. However it is totally different from what I have imagined:

After a few visits in the market I realize that people who are lonely will go there, not only the lower-class people. I met an old lady in the Dawn Market. She brought her cloth from home to the market for selling everyday at 4:00a.m. The sellers in the Dawn Market called her "the wealthy woman" because she lived in luxurious house state with family members and house workers. She was not lacking of money and daily necessaries but family love. I talked with her and she smiled.  I believe that she was sick with loneliness. Besides, the Dawn Market is a place for people living / working there to seek for sense of belongings of their life, no matter who they are.


There are variety of goods in the market. They are 2nd handed goods collected by the hawkers there. Most of the people in the Dawn Market, no matter buyers or sellers, are live under poverty. However,they have more or less the same expectation, that is to improve lives within their ability. For people who live with confortable environment and adequate food will not understand their feelings and needs. They rarely wear smile on their face but with hope in their eyes. Although their goods for sell are cheap, the little amount of money within the 3 hours is already able to offer them 3 meals.  

How do people value the importance of things? I could find / buy good goods there. They are "good" because they are still valuable to somebody / somewhere. Why did people giveup them easily while they are still usable and new? The only reason that I can think of is the limited living space in Hong Kong physically and the not fulfilled material incentive mentality.

The word "dawn" from a dictionary means "the period in the day when light from the sun begins to appear in the sky". The name comes from the working period of the hawkers there, from almost 4:00a.m to 7:ooa.m. It is because they are afraid of being arrested by the police. The name "Dawn Market" is like having a joke with the people owing their lives there.

I record the sound in the market everytime during the visit. What I hear is the realistic lives of the minority.


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On 26th March, I had my 1st visit in the Dawn Market in my birthday. Actually I was afraid that it might be so late for me to start the confirmed idea since I will have to hand in the Honor Project Documentation without half a month. However the experience is so impressive and true to me. I was very delightful that I was accompanied with my families that day.

There is a big contradiction between people living in the globe.

http://www.soco.org.hk/homeless2/e.htm

My 3rd visit in Dawn Market

Picture Frams $12/4
They are beautiful, but the one who throw them away is ugly!!

Little Animail Models $ 2/10
I'm afraid of animail, but they're not real, they'll not hurt me.

Wood bowl and spoon $ 10/set
The bowl is in midium size. People who need to eat more to maintain healthy can take it home.

A hydro-electric power clock $10
It's amazing and environmentally friendly!!!!

Cooking toy $ 3
I love them when I was small.

Cooking toy $ 3
I love them when I grow up.

Bubble playing toy $ 3
Feel relax when playing this. Want to get away from the Honor Project!

A basket $ 3

A Supper market little cart $ 25

A Supper market little cart $ 25

A "gag" music book $ 3
It's a Humourous music book with lyrics.
I believe that HK people need this.
 

My second visit @ Dawn Market 2

中嶋美智代寫真集 ＄8
一開始吸引我的是人像畫的那一頁，我以為是Art的書
它沒有封面，反而更能引起我的興趣
以前跟現在的寫真集比較，尺度是天怨之別
什至比一本雜誌健康



會動和發光的玩具 ＄2／each
中間那螢光恐龍骨是我兒時的玩具
以為螢光的東西和貼紙總有一天像螢光棒那樣沒有了螢光的功能就沒有用
後來才知道不是
想不到現在我們有機會重逢




手指玩偶 ＄2／each




萬壽無疆碗 ＄12
第一次去天光墟的時候買了兩隻很可愛的匙
第二次去發現了同款的碗
於是它們就這樣重逢了
上面的圖案代表了祝福，果然很靈驗




Ligao 27 pcs 積木 ＄2／each
是 lego 的 friend




東升線業線碌 ＄5／3
它們的顏色很吸引我
對於喜愛縫紉的我很實用

車仔玩具棋 ＄8
它曾經是一件被警視廳扣留的物件
後來得到釋放，來到了天光墟等待收留它的人

＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿

今次特別選擇在星期日（3rd April, 2011）行動，因為擺檔的小販是平日的幾倍。擺賣的人多了，來到訪的年青人也特別多，應該也是來體驗生活的。天光墟明顯比平日熱鬧，但小插曲也隨之而多了。
I expecially went to the Dawn Market on Sunday, the 3rd April,2011.  There are more hawkers than Monday to Saturaday.  A lot of youngsters went there to experience lives of the people in the Dawn Market.

在互聯網上得到有關天光墟的資信，跟親身到訪有很大分別，原來天光墟的攤檔經已愈來愈少，可能是買的人不多，賣的人也賺得不多，動力自然與日遞減。
I have made some research about the Dawn Market from the internet before going there. However, it is different from experienced it by going there. One of the hawker told me that less people would like to bring their goods for selling, because they found that there are less people  go to the Dawn Market nowadays. That's why their motivation to sell goods decrease.

很多人都說「一代不如一代」，事實上生活環境的轉變令許多年輕的一代都經不起風浪。天光墟的小販許多都是上了年紀的人，我打從心底裡欣賞他們的刻苦，雖然他們靠拾東西為生，但他們願意放下身段及世俗的眼光，並沒有想過以綜緩代替自力更生。他們有自尊，不隨便給別人在自己的檔攤拍照，是不想被人捸捕，是不想被人記起，更不想讓照片紀錄他們曾經失落的過去......也許他們只是單純的相信天光之前的離去可以讓明天繼續。

My second visit @ Dawn Market