jwalker9328: Artist finally finds use for old mooncake boxes, builds huge pagoda

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Artist finally finds use for old mooncake boxes, builds huge pagoda

When asked whether he had to consume all the mooncakes for all 600 tins to make the pagoda, Lim did not answer directly. There's a Chinese pagoda made out of 600 mooncake boxes currently on display in Hong Kong as part of William Lim's solo exhibition.

Mooncakes are the traditional food eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival when Chinese people celebrate the full moon, the harvest and family.

Lim's 4.5-meter tower is made from layers of plywood and empty tin boxes for mooncakes collected from a recycling program. It is held together by nothing but the tension of four steel cables

The pagoda is born out of Lim's triumvirate of passions: art, architecture and Hong Kong culture.

It's fun, simple and so Chinese.