Abstract
In a contemporary iteration of the world-as-text paradigm, one of the newer, most tangible theoretical turns is referred to as material ecocriticism. What material ecocriticism offers is another way of conceptualizing, “reading” cities like Hong Kong, thinking through the dynamic feedback loops that intertwine street art, literally as “storied matter, ”, neighborhoods, as place-based storied communities. Reading street art as storied matter offers new explorative ways of utilizing the lens of street art to read the ideation, creation of a neighborhood’s history, present, futurity. This article considers my own work creating a mural in Wan Chai as a study in the practicalities of such an approach.
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