Duration: 4’50
Elephant in Castle 城堡裡的大象
Animation
2021
2021
Elephant in Castle is a hand-drawn, frame-by-frame digital animation that unfolds through an abstract narrative. Created amid the social changes of 2019–2020, it reflects on the emotional and perceptual relationship between the individual and the collective consciousness of Hong Kong, the city where Lee grew up.
Rather than presenting Hong Kong as a fixed geography, Lee approaches it through fragments of lived experience, tracing how social upheaval, memory, emotion, and perception continually reshape one’s sense of place.
The work marks an early exploration of topophilia (the love of place) within Lee’s practice, establishing a recurring inquiry into the bonds between people and the places they inhabit.
Rather than presenting Hong Kong as a fixed geography, Lee approaches it through fragments of lived experience, tracing how social upheaval, memory, emotion, and perception continually reshape one’s sense of place.
The work marks an early exploration of topophilia (the love of place) within Lee’s practice, establishing a recurring inquiry into the bonds between people and the places they inhabit.