As one of the participants of Somewhere Called O’higgins, a 3-month residency to explore the native gastronomic landscape of the region of O'Higgins, Chile, I had a valuable time to study Maní (peanuts) by getting in touch with local producers and farmers.

By comparing their agricultural heritage along with ours, I have reimagined and regloried Maní as the crop from Chilean gods - just as Manna - therefore I have created a temple documenting our worship in Casa De La Cultura Rancagua as a prelude to the Gastronomic Festival of O'Higgins. Wish this Chilean wisdom could lead us to a brighter future, just as Exodus of us Hong Kongers.

Being one of the contributors of the first issue of FDzeeN, it was my absolute pleasure to host its Hong Kong launch with my wonderful workmates as the opening event of the Pointsman art space.

For this occasion I have curated an immersive (Junk) Food Safari around Sai Ying Pun — based on the chapter Palate of Junk (see next project); also a (not-so-junk) food lantern-riddle night with serious fun as it happened on Mid-Autumn Festival. A very special experience for me to put everything together emerging different aspects of myself.

As a first step to reflect our mindless consumption of those spicy, heavy seasoned junk snacks originated in mainland China. These brightly coloured, heavily seasoned and processed snacks are numbing our palates — and there’re things we could do about it.

I presented this observation and suggested some homemade recipes of these snacks as the first phase of this project, which is featured in the very first issue of FDzeeN .

Expanding the spectrum of edibles by evolving our digestive system with Dawn Soil ^TM. Also a long statment below.

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My first food project! It’s an experiment to record your memory by turning it into a spring roll. You could also share your recipe of the roll as well as its taste.

By associating personal memory with particular taste and ingredients, food becomes a medium to communicate and express emotions and stories. It takes food preparation as a way to explore cultural identity and as a way to express social beliefs.

As different culture would react differently with certain ingredients, how we prepare the food and the way we eat them would reflect our identities. So this roll could provide a framework to investigate these subtleties of different food items towards different cultural background. Turning the roll recipes collected into a publication is my upcoming plan.

A self published zine to record the irreversible changes in the neighbourhood I grew up in, in the context of (anti)celebrating The Northern Metropolis Development Strategy announced by HKSAR in 2021.

These newly built, standardized architectural symbols of China mark the new normal of Hong Kong.

As part of the STEAM Playground held in Central Market, May from Art of MY Family have invited me to design the background for Fill Central with Love - an interactive installation where people creates their own fish and let them swim through time of Central, and become part of the artwork.

This bustling playground scene of the city is made with 1GB of archival images of Hong Kong Island from 1930s to 2000s.

I have been learning how to make a traditional bamboo steamer with Master Lui Ming since 2020. This chandelier is my experiment with bamboo weaving — it’s a process of seeking and following rhythms among the chaotic; manipulating yet acclimating the material to create cohesive patterns.

This cocoon is weaved with intuition, between disorder and customized rules to reach this subtle harmony.

EAT ART Collective has a meaningful research on democratizing industrial use of food additives— a very intriguing progress to exchange knowledge of this mysterious phase of food with open public!

I have designed the packaging for their upcoming web shop of selling industrial food additives for home use. The colour coding spectrum indicates different functions of additives; also the icons representing special dietary criteria are developed based on the grid of the typeface (OCR-A) used as identity.

Washing hands have become daily ritual during covid-19. Carol and I have come up with a concept of the bird calls attachments for sanitizer bottles caps for Fountain of Hygiene organised by Bompas & Parr. (and we won!)

Made a mashup with bird songs with these caps - stay tuned for the prototypes!

These tactile graphics are designed for whom are interested in nature - they are created for customized eco tours for visually impaired people, hosted by WWF Hong Kong. Two sets of simple yet accessible illustrated dictionary showcasing 20 iconic birds in Mai Po Nature Reserve as well as 15 plants species in Island House Conservation Studies Centre. Project done with Beyond Vision Projects.

I pay tribute to those cartoon figures in 70s government publicity campaigns and turned some Hong Kong foods into kitschy mascots (briefly animated).

These squares are monotypes and pen drawing I made with Hoick for an identity concept of Cape Town’s first artisanal coffee roaster. These monotype squares are the abstractions of a cup of coffee. Very special experience for me to design with experimental process for unexpected results - which remains a prominent concept in my design works.

This umbrella is a result of a two month social design workshop organized by Openground, where a team of creatives have engaged in research to embrace the homemade wisdom among the neighbourhood.

Teammate and I have come up with a lowkey umbrella device to maximize the flexibility of sun drying foodstuff with all materials found in the community.