Monuments : Flipper, Ada and Honey

紀念像：飛寶，愛達與蜜糖

愛達篇

Chapter 1 : Ada

當自然被私有化；

人類獨自向動物發展從屬關係；

屍體成為化石再塑成雕像；

飛寶、愛達與蜜糖；

香港回歸時，中華白海豚被選為回歸吉祥物，

縱然漁民視他們為忌。

海上頻繁的建設，讓海豚持續遷移居所，從北至西。

愛達是世界上其中一隻成功被人工受孕的海豚。

2019年，成為主題公園短暫攝影師的我，開始拍攝動物。

生活在水池的愛達，看不見海洋。

而在大海中生存的中華白海豚，亦不見得能安逸過活。

香港多處也設置海豚雕像，悠然地站在岸上。

抬頭看著雕像，嘗試放慢眼光去凝視，破裂的、

微笑的、空心的。他以甚麼成為雕像而站著。

一具沉默而堅硬的屍體，安放在這裡，不被釋放的意義。

美國、香港與日本。

When nature is privatised;

man alone develops a subordination to the animals;

The fossilization of corpses into statues;

Flipper, Ada, and Honey;

Chinese white dolphins were chosen as the mascot for Hong Kong's handover, even though they were considered taboo by fishermen. Frequent construction at sea has seen the dolphins continue to move their habitat from north to west.

Ada is one of the dolphins in the world to have been successfully impregnated in captivity.

In 2019, I became a temporary theme park photographer and started snapping the animals.

Ada, who lives in a pool, cannot see the ocean.

The Chinese white dolphins living in the sea are not always at ease either.

Dolphin statues were erected in many places in Hong Kong, standing on the shore. Look up at the statue. Try to slow down your gaze. See them broken, smiling, hollowed. He stands as a statue of something.

A silent and hardened dead body rests here, its meaning restrained.

USA, Hong Kong, and Japan.