Some Kind of Day: Air 有種日常：空氣

materials:
air filters, ginger and turmeric powders
隔塵網，生薑及薑黃粉末

exhibited in:
Literature x Fine Art Exhibition “Scent of Soil, Roots of Nidanas”, 2021, Hong Kong
土有香，根有緣 : 文學 × 視藝展覽

Ginger is a rhizome buried in the soil. Appeared as an ordinary and simple rhizome plant, it is used everywhere in food, spice, dessert, shampoo, shower gel, detergent, and medicine. After processing, it is absorbed by our stomach, hair, skin pores, toenails, etc.

Wing Po So employed materials that are usually hidden in spaces: filters in the air conditioner, plastic plugs in concrete to fill the space between screws and drilled holes, and brass water pipe fittings behind the wall. These structural accessories suggest the movement and density of air, the flow of water, and a load of weights – bringing mobility to fixed structures, ubiquity to hidden parts, blurring the boundary between above ground and underground.

Daily necessities and tools such as a broom, a tweezer, and detergent bottle caps interact with ginger root in ways that reveal the daily experience of man-made nature. Furthermore, different forms of ginger are presented: powdered, fibrous, sliced, and burnt – revealing the physical transformation of ginger as a medicinal ingredient or in food preparation.

《有種日常》以空間填充物和生活物品，把植物、空間和身體連結，觀看和想像這個與人關係親密的植物，模糊地面和地底的界限。我的作品與薑有關，薑是埋在泥土的植物，這系列作品我用了平時隱藏於空間的物料：冷氣機隔塵網、石屎裏用來填充螺絲的膠塞、水喉通。作品與空間、身體、空氣有關。又呈現處理藥材食品時不同形態的薑：粉末、纖維、切片、燒焦。除空間填充物外，作品也包含一些生活物品及工具如掃把、除毛夾、清潔劑瓶蓋，以工具觀看和想像這個與人關係親密的植物，呈現一個多變的植物景觀，探索人體與植物、以及地面與地底的轉換。有種日常是於生活、空氣、灰塵之中都有泥土氣息，透露長期處於一種人為化的大自然之中的日常經驗。