Description
Hong Kong is not known for its beaches despite boasting some beautiful natural ones in the far corners of its country parks, the majority of beaches for public use are manufactured.
This series follows the final stages of the city’s newest beach at Lung Mei, as copious amounts of sand are offloaded, dredged, and slowly formed into a familiar straight gently sloping line that merges with the sea.
A once beautiful and natural sea shore, filled with urchins, molluscs, crustaceans, and other endemic sea creatures was forced to give way due to our obsession with sand. Now large groins of stone and cement jut starkly into the sea to form the boundaries between the world of ‘civilized’ human leisure and the natural world.
From above we see the machines shifting and forming this precious commodity into its proper shape. The silt mingles with the sea water within the floating barriers but eventually the rains and currents drag them out into the harbour and back to the natural shoreline.
