Egg tarts, temples, the Blue House—there’s nothing these Hong Kong miniature artists can’t make, as they immortalise the city’s disappeared sights as teeny-tiny models
For the month of July, the top floor of Central Market was turned into a wonderland in which everything had shrunk. There was a miniature Wan Chai Blue House with real-life details as intricate as the numbers and symbols marked on the wooden staircase and a criss-cross network of electrical wires mounted on the building’s exterior; a downsized Wing Wo Grocery on Wellington Street with more than 100 tiny bottles of vinegar, soy sauce and rice wine; a toy shop selling plastic “watermelon” footballs found in the 1970s; the now-closed Kam Kee Bakery, which used to sell old-style Chinese pastries; and the King of Kowloon with his calligraphy.
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These are only a few of the 100 pieces featured in the city’s biggest miniature art exhibition, An Art Journey into the Past and Present Urban Reinvention, which captured the modern and old sights of the city’s 18 districts from a 12:1 to 750:1 ratio. The exhibition, currently in Tokyo, will tour to Seoul before returning to Hong Kong in November for another showcase for two months.