Home Away From Home (Victoria Park version) A2 prints

作品簡介：

阿塗替Hong Kong Film Festival UK 2023 創作的畫作，以英國與香港擁有相同街道名稱的奇妙巧合為題，描繪異鄉人尋找熟悉印記的情感旅程。

他離港前居於香港大坑華倫街 (Warren Street)，每年中秋都參與舞火龍，然而移居英國後，陌生環境帶來孤獨與不安。當發現替附近有同名的地鐵站 Warren Street，熟悉而陌生的感覺頓時湧現，像是一種跨越港英殖民歷史與現代英國的時空交錯。

畫作呈現出移民、文化認同與歸屬感的複雜糾結，既渴望融入新環境，又不願失去自身文化，是一種游離於兩地之間的微妙平衡。透過創作，阿塗將這份難以言喻的矛盾與思念具象化，讓畫面成為異鄉人的心靈寄託，也映照著港人散落世界各地的共同經歷。

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About the artwork

Ah To created an artwork for the Hong Kong Film Festival UK 2023, inspired by the fascinating coincidence of British and Hong Kong streets sharing the same names. The piece explores the emotional journey of an outsider searching for familiar traces in a foreign land.

Before leaving Hong Kong, he lived on Warren Street in Tai Hang, where he participated in the annual Fire Dragon Dance every Mid-Autumn Festival. However, after relocating to the UK, he experienced loneliness and unease in an unfamiliar environment. Upon discovering a nearby Warren Street Station, the familiar yet foreign feeling overwhelmed him—like a moment of temporal overlap between Hong Kong’s colonial past and modern Britain.

His artwork captures the complex entanglement of migration, cultural identity, and belonging—the yearning to integrate into a new environment while refusing to lose one's cultural roots. It reflects a delicate balance between two places, a state of in-betweenness. Through his creation, Ah To transforms this unspeakable contradiction and longing into a visual form, making his artwork a spiritual refuge for those far from home. It also mirrors the shared experiences of Hongkongers scattered across the world.