Faculty of Design

Illustration

Wing Lam Chan

04 The Convenience House 大澳方便院

It is said that an unsettling hospice lies hidden among the stilt houses in Tai O, once serving as a burial site for dying elders whose bodies were never reclaim by their families. Within this dread space, an elderly man rests while imagining himself as a tilapia—an invasive species brought from Mainland—drifting among local fishes of the village.The piece depicts an inexplicable calm settling upon unstable land—a place shaped by sojourner mentality, yet one that became a lifelong shelter for many immigrants during the 1970s.