A brief set to produce an visual response to one of the cities in the novel by Italo Calvino “Invisable Cities”, and I chose to illustrate the “Hidden City”.

The term “Hidden” doesn’t refer to the name of the city , but instead, it was about the nature of the city, that  “at every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence”. And the idea of the pieces was about even though people are livining in this city of sadness, but they can still find their own happiness from within.

The theme for this project was “Side Effect” and we were asked to produce an illustration which illustrate a form of side effects of our choice.

I used Macau as an example in this project. Macau is a small city locating near Hong Kong and it’s undergoing huge city development. Casinos and hotels were built and the cost of that would be the city’s own tradition and cultures. This then became the initial idea of this project. I imagined a monster- like machine consuming all the traditions and culture and what’s left at the end were just casinos and hotels. A rather simple illustration.

Let’s go for a swim.

Summer in Hong Kong is just too much for a Blackpooler…

Damn cornea infection!

As I have left home in Hong Kong for too long and my bed is covered by dust and bacterica…

Feel like someone is building this crazy thing on my eye…

Live drawing at Natural histroy museum.

This drawing is dedicated to my flatmate, Joanna Iu, who is leaving our flat next year.

Mr. Bitter Gourd is weeping on an empty bed in an empty room…

Just watched the movie “Nacho Libre”

Thought I might do something for it.