LEE Yuk Ki Florence is a creative practitioner born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her BA
in Graphic Design (Moving image specialism) from Central Saint Martins in 2016, and
currently doing her MFA in the School of Creative Media. Her creative practices include
contemporary animation, moving image, illustration and visual communication design. She
loves to explore the extraordinariness in the ordinary objects of a city. Her work expresses
the emotional, aesthetic and sentimental responses that she has to the particular environment
or building of different cities where she used to live and travel. She co-founded No Reason
Studio, a Hong Kong based independent art publishing studio focuses on illustration,
photography and animation which dedicated to contemporary print and publication
productions. They joined several art book fairs and festivals such as Tai Kwun BOOKED:
2020 and 2021, Taipei Art Book Fair 2018, Hong Kong Zine and Print Fest 2018 , Kowloon
City Book Fair 2018 etc. She collaborated, she creates, she makes art books.
More on her personal website
Elephant in Castle, 2021 is a 2D digital animation, using a hand drawn frame by
frame process to create subtle abstract narratives.
The work is created within the context of two strange years, 2019 and 2020. It re-
writes my film, back in 2018, what was important become significantly meaningless.
With a subtle narrative, the work expresses a constant change within my own inner
world. It is a reflective process, on discovering my own subject matter, as well as this
complex world I am living in.
I hope to rediscover meanings that are built up upon the unimpressive ordinary
dimensions of Hong Kong, a city where I grew up; to express the atmosphere,
emotional, aesthetic and tactile responses that I have to this place. Also, the sense of
permanence or change of these particular places, through this animated short film.
Stepping into a new decade of the 2020’s, the world is coming to an unprecedented
and critical moment in history. The work could be a reflection on contemporary
political and social shifts conveyed by my sentimental responses to the personal
stories and memories about the city, and the events/incidents that took place in the
city.
I was inspired by the research topic and artworks relating to Topophilia. Topophilia,
terms from Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”, is a “strong sense of place,
which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people
and a love of certain aspects of such a place.” People in a city might come from
different place originally, but they all form their own paths of connectivity and
responses to the places we inhabit, and even to the particular site that they pass
through occasionally.