City Memories

Chief Executive of Hong Kong, John Lee, said that Hong Kong had been fully back to normal 全面復常 on 30 June 2023. This makes me start wondering what is the definition of being normal. Is that a sign of Economic depression in this metropolis a normal situation or this metropolis had been kicked out by the APEC being a good sign of back to normal?

I would like to discuss this topic for a while, but I cannot find a medium to express this topic. One day I was having my city walk. I found out that in 2023 still have so many marks that had left behind in the summer of 2019. Somehow I believe that the city does have its independent memories, it shows clues about what had happened here before.

Maybe the definition of “Normal” expressed by the Government is that Citizens can back to their workplaces. Of course, Hong Kong citizens really love working, they have the highest number of working hours around the world. But can it be any value that is more important than work? Then if we lost this value now, can we still claim ourselves as being normal?


In this series of photos, I would not like to put so many of my political ideas in it and wait for readers to Interpret themselves. Political arguments would not have any absolute answers, we make our stands only based on our own opportunity costs. No matter how you define this social movement in 2019 as a protest for individual freedom, a protest for saving Hong Kong, or even a violent movement that broke the laws. It does not matter, all I would like to ask is that are citizens nowadays still remember that period of time. This political movement had been stopped, is it a sign of being normal? Are people losing their values as a sign of being normal, or do people start forgetting what had been here before being a sign of the city fully back to normal?