19.4.11

Tsang Tsou-choi: King of Kowloon,
crazy old man, and pioneer of Hong Kong street art

19 April / CNN GO / Zoe Li

Photographer Thomas Lin is alone in prominently featuring Tsang-style writing in his tribute work. He produced a series of images titled "Tete-beche" in which Chung imitates Tsang by painting calligraphy in Hong Kong's public spaces.

Except, Chung paints the Chinese characters upside-down. Lin then flips the images so that the characters are the right way up, but the environment becomes upside-down.

"It is like we are fighting gravity," says Lin. "Gravity rules everything. To fight it is like fighting the status quo."

It is a statement that the King of Kowloon would probably like, before painting calligraphy all over the photos.

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