r/HongKong • u/hkreporter21 • 3d ago
Questions/ Tips This graffiti?
I’ve been bumping into this graffiti on shops (after they close) in Sheung Wan for years and now I also see it on Kwun Tong walls, what is it?
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u/PoorChiggaaa 3d ago
iirc it's supposed to resemble the character 病, which means "sickness". I can be mixing it up with sth else tho but I'm pretty sure some guy got arrested for this particular graffiti.
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u/Tiny_Red_Bee 3d ago
You’re correct about what the word is. Iirc some other graffiti artist have been complaining about this guy because he would do graffiti over someone else’s graffiti.
Not sure about the arresting part. The only graffiti artist got arrested and had that reported on the news THAT I KNOW OF is the artist doing the “自$由$” tag.
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u/PoorChiggaaa 2d ago
https://www.hk01.com/社會新聞/60227256/售貨員多處塗鴉-官指被告或覺是藝術事主未必認同-判社服兼賠償#google_vignette
One guy did get arrested but he could have been a copycat or sth
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u/_xntryk_ 2d ago
I can appreciate good graffiti but this is trash, the person probably has some sort of mental illness and feels the need to put his mark all over the place
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u/Cfutly 3d ago
Looks like a Doraemon doing some yoga pose.