Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
Fong Lok Kee Rocky's animation frame operates within rich symbolic territories where the aerial perspective itself functions as a visual metaphor for contemplative distance, wisdom gained through elevated viewpoint, and the revelation of patterns invisible from ground level. The central ovoid formation, with its concentric rings spiraling inward toward a luminous core, resonates with archetypal mandala imagery found across contemplative traditions, suggesting wholeness, cosmic order, and the centered self, while its egg-like shape may evoke associations with potential, genesis, and the fertile beginning from which complexity emerges. The predominantly blue-green palette carries associations with water, life-sustaining nourishment, healing, and the natural world in its regenerative capacity, while the warm ochre and sienna accents suggest earth, cultivation, and the productive relationship between human activity and natural systems. The terraced patterns visible throughout the landscape encode meanings of agricultural harmony, patient transformation of terrain over generations, and the aesthetic beauty that emerges from sustained human-nature collaboration. White elements scattered across the composition may function as symbols of spirit, transcendence, or living presence within the larger landscape system, their flight-suggestive forms evoking freedom and the aerial perspective shared by viewer and bird alike. The flowing, organic contours that dominate the composition suggest natural water systems, the branching patterns of river deltas, or the growth patterns of living organisms, encoding themes of interconnection, flow, and the fractal repetition of forms across scales that characterizes natural systems. The work invites interpretation as a celebration of ecological beauty, a meditation on pattern and emergence, and a visual poem honoring the intricate dance between human cultivation and natural process.
For each of these pieces in this video montage, designer focused on the ambience of the scenes. He wished to create a sense of "flowing", like "running water" in the river, by looping the movement of the objects in a fluent way and built an atmosphere which the audience could immerse their emotions in. For most of the pieces, designer made the shot very wide. Most of the objects were very small and far. Designer wished the audience could have the feeling that they were standing right inside the scene when they were watching it.