Moving Cities: Hong Kong

May 26

A few months ago, I received an exciting proposition. As most of my work is commercial and seldom get invited to an art project, I jumped in the chance. The project involves dancers' video & photos taken in cities. You may check the content at http://www.moving-cities.com/ or go to their Instagram Page. The project is managed by Wind & Director Jevan Chowdhury.

This project is one of the projects hit by Covid-19. The plan was to shoot the Hong Kong Ballet dancers in the streets of Hong Kong, but with the outbreak, this plan had to be replaced. They decided to make composites, and this time, there was the time factor as these artworks would be printed large (very large) to be printed on the walls of Hong Kong. On top of that, as they hadn't had much experience with compositing before shots with ballerinas were made in front of a green screen! That threw a lot of green cast on white dresses and hair; these had to be cleaned out.

This has been the project that took so much energy from my 32GB iMac and me! File sizes passed 100GB, and I had to nest different files to manage them. Also the visuals had tremendous width compared to height as they were intended to cover the walls from end to end. As a result, I can only showpieces from the artwork.

This has been one of the most challenging projects I have worked so far, and I can't take the full credit as other artists made the finalization, but it's always a pleasure to see your work displayed on large size at someplace in the world. After New York metro, I can tell my work is posted at Hong Kong metro walls too.