“Told by the Soil – Stories of Victoria II - Colour Mining” Carol Lee Mei-kuenHKOP Gallery

Carol Lee showed us a small box of pigment, the colour of linen. Touching the pigment, it felt as fine as dust. It was hard to imagine that this fine dust began life as Hong Kong’s primary soil, excavated from a depth of 38 metres below the surface at 24-28 Bonham Road. Sifting through samples of untouched and unchanging earth, Lee extracted over a hundred astonishing colours. The boxes of greenish-yellow, olive green, amber, flax, sand, linseed and taupe-coloured pigments of all shades are the results of Lee’s year-long soil processing. Using the printmaking ink produced from these pigments, Lee illustrated her colourful year through a fine relief print.

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