The Inner Études

Rock as Companion and Ally: The Whispering Tale Beside The Wall

Hundreds of million years ago somewhere in the Northern hemisphere, the earth shook violently. Ashes and smoke billowed and shot through the sky while lava snaked through the lands. When all is calm, a piece of land hard as granite came into existence. A metropolis is miraculously built upon this steep terrain—Hong Kong. These granites, dotted with black dots, continue to be a symbol of strength and endurance used in roads and buildings all over this city while silently guarding people in their daily lives.

Burrowing through layers of granite, we witness the chronicles of Hong Kong in reverse: from urbanisation, development of mining and quarrying industries, to geology and the process of geological studies. Until we have reached pre human era, we see a possibility to construct the story of Hong Kong from a geology perspective, a timeline that perhaps has transcended beyond human primacy.