[Mood Board] The disappearing fragment of Hong Kong City

This collage shows the mood board for Hong Kong’s loud, busy and crowded Temple Street in contrast with the still, quiet and customer-less joss paper shop ‘Shing Fung Hong’ in one of the spaces of Temple Street. The night light reveals the vibrant and  colourful setting as a local and tourist attraction and hawker market, where the highly dense and speedy population flow brings out what seems to be a vibrance in local economy [right]. However it is revealed that what lies in Temple Street is a disappearing culture – the tradition of joss paper folding and burning is gradually vanishing as the joss paper shop remains empty, only apart from the persistent shop owners who quietly go on with work on their hands to keep the shop running.

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