neighbourhood graffiti

Although I’ve seen quite a lot of graffiti in Fanling, until yesterday I’d never seen any examples in my immediate neighbourhood, which I would characterize as semi-rural. However, whenever we go to Queen’s Hill for breakfast, unless we intend to do a long walk, we always follow the same roundabout route home (we go there by the most direct route). This route home includes a footpath that connects the large area of standard village houses in Lung Yeuk Tau, the domain of the Tang clan, with the independent village of Hak Pai Tsai to the east.

This is the view of the path, looking east towards Hak Pai Tsai:

…and of course I spotted the graffito straight away.

This is a closer look:

I didn’t think whether there would be any more graffiti around the corner, but there were:

These three graffiti are considerably more complex than most of the examples that I’ve seen in Fanling’s industrial district, and the differences in style are so pronounced that they are clearly the work of different artists. In fact, I’ve not seen these styles anywhere else in Fanling, so these graffiti could be the work of outsiders.

I’m not sure precisely when we last came this way, but it was certainly in the past week, and there are spaces on this wall for more graffiti. There are other walls nearby too, so I expect more graffiti to follow in the near future. Not many people come this way, so I don’t expect any graffiti painted here to suffer the fate of much of the graffiti that I’ve photographed elsewhere in Fanling, which is to be painted over or scrubbed off. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next.

I used to cycle along this path quite frequently years ago, but I stopped when the ‘owner’ of the land behind the wall decided to build the wall, right up to the edge of the path, which made it too difficult to stay on the path without striking my handlebar on the wall. It’s gratifying to discover that this otherwise annoying wall finally has a useful purpose!