THE WORKING ARCHIVE

Photographs, observations, experiments and things worth keeping.
Archive status: ACTIVELast updated: 21 JUL 2026Current location: ShanghaiCurrent file: Why Some Objects Feel Like They Have Already Lived a Life
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Hong Kong

China · Visited: Layovers, mostly; one proper visit in 2024

Filed honestly: my Hong Kong is mostly Gate 23 at 3:40 am. The airport has hosted enough of my layovers that it qualifies as a place I have lived, cumulatively, for several days — all of them horizontal, using a backpack as a pillow.

The one proper visit (2024) established that the city deserves better than my transit-lounge relationship with it. A future entry will correct the record. The unresolved list grows.

Current holdings: one field guide to sleeping in airports, several photographs of empty gates, and an ongoing nod-based friendship with the night-shift floor polisher community.

An airport gate at night, rows of empty seats under fluorescent light

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ENTRIES FILED FROM HONG KONG
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An airport gate at night, rows of empty seats under fluorescent lightDSC_0212.JPG