# @gordoncheung on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQTD3bGAWT0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61440259-gordoncheung-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-27T03:36:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Gordon Cheung 張逸斌 (@gordoncheung) — https://gondola.cc/gordoncheung

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✨ New Territories at GDM ✨
New Territories is my painting for my solo show at GDM. It’s where my parents are indigenous; the Tang and Cheung clans. I am 29th generation. During the 6 day war, my clans resisted the British against invasion and occupation. They lost, and received concessions to placate resistance and renamed the area New Territories. This is the main city section of my canvas.
At the bottom left, I depict the British Nemesis gunboat used to conduct the 2nd Opium war that established the British as the first narco state, enforcing unfair treaties and the loss of Hong Kong into a British colony after with the French spent 3 days burning and looting the Summer Palace.
In the midsection, I paint a distorted scroll painting of one of the views of the Summer Palace, the last document to exist before its Anglo-Franco destruction. The scroll was stolen by the French and resides in a museum. I distort one of its images into an aurora-like form, the visual forms of the earth’s atmosphere protecting against the solar rays; Earth and Heaven.
Written like a constellation in the sky, the Belt and Road map, the new silk roads where over 150 nations have signed up for mutual trade with China; the single largest human project in history.
At the bottom right, I place a bull rider on the edge of the South China Sea 9-dash map, a bookend to the British Empire personified by the weaponised technological metal gunboat. The bull rider is my symbol of the US, its weaponised monetary system and, in this context, the 400 US military bases that surround China. 
Between the aurora and the New Territories are depicted 2 holy mountains: Mount Sinai and Mount Song, symbolising traditional western and eastern grand narratives that contribute to the unity of civilisations. 
My painting is about the sublime, but not the forces of nature as expressions of God that overwhelm an individual into a transcendent experience of divinity. It’s about the forces of civilisation and its mechanisms; geopolitics, histories written by victors and grand narratives to bring us closer to a transcendent experience of humanity. #GordonCheung Until 15 Nov 2025 HK

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