Every day, things are happening and ideas are wandering in one’s mind.  No one wishes to fade away over time, and nothing meant to be forgotten.  Wong Ka-ying makes it a habit to record down her thoughts and photograph the places she has passed by. In reorganizing and reading these documentations, one may find surprises and different feelings.  Complex emotions are expressed through the tip of the pen, just as the segments of time are kept by the camera. They are records of transformation, sorrow, elapsing and anger. They could be seeking unknown resonance or just for friends to make fun of each other.  It is a process that multiplied bit by bit through life experience.

Wong Ka-ying often takes pictures with her Polaroid camera. With it film images cannot be redeveloped. As soon as you press the shutter button, there’s no turning back. The photos are therefore seen to be more precious than those produced from the traditional or the digital camera. Regardless of the result, the photos will then be carefully arranged. They are about her everyday happenings, things she encounters, and of course, the selfies. Sometimes she jots down her thoughts on the Polaroid, but sometime she smears and rewrites them afterwards.

Glass can be seen through but it can’t be passed through; hard but fragile; beautiful but destructive. Wong Ka-ying is captivated by glass as a medium because of its uncontrollable quality. Utilizing screen printing technique, she repeatedly duplicates prominent historical figures on multiple fixed size glass plates, and thus creates alternate photos by adding in texts, scrawls and collage. The replicability of screen print happens to contradict with the solitariness of Polaroid.

It could be pretty, or it could be disgusting; reader must find their own ways to feel these various forms of records.  Wong Ka-ying was born in 1990 in Hong Kong. Like most Hong Kong young people, she has a part-time job while pursuing her dream. During her university life, in 2011, she took a gap year to be a volunteer teacher in Shaoguan in Northern Guangdong, China where lacking school teachers. Since her graduation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013, she has been taking various cultural and art related jobs, and maintaining sufficient space and finances to balance between making a living and pursuing a dream.