Thursday, October 18, 2012

A Simple Analysis - Side by Side comparison

A Simple Analysis - Side by Side comparison 


In the art piece, It is quite clear from their look that they are dragon of cleanliness and litterbug, and they are linked together. They seem to be good friends in art piece but in clean Hong Kong campaign history, they have always been enemies.

From the comparison above, the red spots on litterbug turned into red dollar signs. Which may symbolize litterbug get a lot of money in HK, he is also holding a glass of red wine which symbolize wealth and higher class. This means litterbug could be someone like tycoons that have a lot of money, greedy and drink red wine. Litterbug has its pointed canines and pointed tail which means it is quite devil like. The red liquid in glass wine may also mean blood that litterbug is getting all the money from citizens. In Chinese we have a term called (血汗錢) which means very hard-earned money. In Chinese it means the money comes from blood. 


It seems like dragon of cleanliness on the left while it is wearing a bowtie that points directly to someone we are familiar with “Bowtie” Donald Tsang. We can further be sure about the character when you see the logo HK on the cleaning gown, he was the chief executive of HKSAR. The word printed on the cleaning gown says清洁大队长which means清潔大隊長 that means it is really Donald Tsang because of his identity in 2003. The five Chinese characters are in simplified Chinese, this also symbolize Donald Tsang relation with Mainland China or even Central Government.  
Feb 2012 Donald Tsang was in a series of scandals about him getting special services from Macao during his trip there. As Macao is more pro-china and many of its places now use simplified Chinese that makes us wonder if the artist try to draw attention to the Macao incident.  


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