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Something new: Head over heels

Andrea Chen

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Some visitors drop in on Santa.
Some visitors drop in on Santa.
"What if I should fall right through the centre of the Earth ... oh, and come out the other side, where people walk upside down?"

Have you ever wondered, like the titular protagonist of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, what it would be like to find a place where everything seems flipped on its head?

If so, visiting the first-floor exhibition hall at the Tsuen Wan Plaza shopping mall might give you some idea. Here, local artists Fei and Alex Wong, who are father and son, have created their own Wonderland by turning Santa Claus' house upside down.

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The life-sized house, fully furnished and decorated for the festive season, is completely inverted. A table groaning with a Christmas feast hangs from the ceiling in the dining room while, in another room, the old man himself is ensconced in a gravity-defying rocking chair next to a fireplace whose chimney reaches out of the ground.

Beware the hole in the bathroom floor (it's actually in the wall; the wall on the left is the floor).
Beware the hole in the bathroom floor (it's actually in the wall; the wall on the left is the floor).
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Visitors enter through an upside-down door - and then have the chance to get creative with their cameras. The trick is to click then turn your photo upside down. If you get someone in the right pose, says Wong, they'll look as though they're coming down the chimney to greet Santa.

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