Imagine the scene: a massive meatball dancing in a big bowl of noodles, a running hot dog and a huge cha siu bao. Do these images whet your appetite?
These icons are portrayed in a series of giant soft sculptures created by local students for an art exhibition intended to give visitors food for thought.
The Soul Foods exhibition is part of Pop Art - Made in Hong Kong, a flagship visual art project of the 2004 Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival (YAF).
The Pop Art project involved 8,000 students from 180 primary and secondary schools. Some of the students worked alongside professional visual artists through a month-long 'artists in schools programme'.
The artists also held workshops for teachers so that they could pass on new creative skills to their students.
The project was inspired by the original pop art movement which emerged from England in the 1950s. The concept combines techniques used in consumer marketing with icons from popular culture - such as everyday objects and images of famous people. It also blurs the gulf between high art and low art.
'Pop art is about finding an interesting angle in mundane [and] ordinary things in life,' said Paul Chan See-lik, a YAF project artist and theatre prop designer.
