It's ok EAT fish - mural on Cheung Chau.

I finished recently some graphics for FINDS restaurant in TST and this gave the idea to paint something longer, bigger than a usual painting and on many surfaces. It also happen that a youth center on Cheung Chau launched an action of wall painting so I proposed them a 50 meters mural. From the beginning of 2011 every morning I'm going to paint it.  

Behind the wall I've chosen there is a playground and the main Cheung Chau beach with a view on Hong Kong Island. Every weekend thousands of peoples are coming to enjoy walks, water sports, seafood – it brings a atmosphere of relax and well being. In this context I thought about painting something about sea and fishes however I didn't wanted to speak in a childish and cute way about how beauty is the nature and how beauty is the world because it's sounds like 5 seconds exaltation that end up once you open your eyes and look what is really happening around. Moreover the 50 meters invite to play rather with a story that people discover when walking along than a pattern with no direction. Fishes...fishes...fishes...fish bones ? And this is what is happening. There is the beauty of the nature that disappear in our mouths consumed when talking and laughing with friends around the table. It's a story about life and death that are interrelated and in the case of the Ocean is the human playing the main death role. We might speak about being nature lovers but it's not changing our relation of predator regarding it.

The part with fishes is well done yet and everybody enjoys it pointing at the 3 dimensional fish eyes. What will happen once I'll finish the part with fish bones and dead eyes we will see by this week. If you are around have a look in real since many of the 3D details are better to be discover in 3D world. Also if you know somebody that would like to comission a big mural painting elsewhere let me know I would love to do more of them.  

Finally about the title. The title is a citation from Nirvana's song “Something in the way” that goes : “it's ok eat fish cause they don't have any feeling”. I like the irony and a kind of fake excuse for the fact that in overall we need to kill animals in order to live.