A local artist has created a giant lighting installation after seeing people bowing their heads and scrolling their phones all the time.
The installation named "The Other Side of the Moon" has been set up at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza in Tsim Sha Tsui, to be displayed until October 3, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced.
Lanterns celebrating the Mid Autumn Festival will also light up at three parks – Victoria Park, Sha Tin Park and Tin Shui Wai Park --- from tomorrow to September 22.
The Tsim Sha Tsui installation features six giant rabbit “phubbers” playing with their tablets and ignoring each other, leading the public to reflect on the impact of the internet and communications between people nowadays.
It is an energy-efficient lighting art installation created by local artist Dylan Kwok.
Separately, the six soccer pitches of Victoria Park will be decorated with colorful lanterns, including a 6-meter-high merry-go-round lantern crafted by local papercraft master Hui Ka-hung, lanterns made by primary and secondary students, and lanterns featuring vibrant flamingos, a happy elephant family, lovely moon birds and twin rabbits.
The lanterns in Shatin Park are themed on the creatures of the underwater world such as clownish, dolphins, turtles and jellyfish.
A 5-meter-high phoenix lantern will light up Tin Shui Wai Park together with displays featuring rabbits, ladybugs, meerkats and robots.
The light-up time will be from 6.30pm to 11pm every evening and will be extended to midnight on the mid-autumn festival.
However, due to the latest situation of
Covid-19, there will be no performances or fringe activities.