Patrick Poon 潘嘉偉
1 min readJul 8, 2021

🤍 #White flowers, in particular white #crysanthemums, carry special meaning in #Chinese culture. My friend (IG: @__mel_chan__), an artist based in the Netherlands, showcased her wonderful paintings and artworks on white chrysanthemums at (IG: @sinartsgallery) to mark the tragedy (no matter whether the government wants to wipe away this bit of history by not conducting any independent investigation or not) at #PrinceEdward MTR station in #HongKong during the extremely sad and unforgettable events in 2019. Two years on, another sad incident occurred on 1 July 2021 when someone who felt too desperate and killed himself after stabbing a police officer in #CausewayBay. How would someone feel so desperate? People are pushed to extreme? While writing this post, people in Hong Kong have been offering various white #flowers to just mourn this man’s tragic death but the Hong Kong government’s officials and police officers are treating the act of offering flowers as “supporting a terrorist”. How do we under morality and justice nowadays? Don’t want to judge but I do believe white flowers can teach us something. Yes, we can learn from flowers. Let us learn from nature. 🤍

Patrick Poon 潘嘉偉

在日本的香港人,常常在學習言論自由和文化 A Hong Konger in Japan, always studying freedom of expression and cultures 📧p@poon.jp