https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD Hong Konger artist KokDamon's selected artwork as featured in the art exhibition at Trinity College Dublin: "We Persist Therefore We Have Hope" - Trauma and Resilience of Hong Kongers through Their Art since 2019" May-June 2022. Biography: KokDamon is a graphic designer, illustration / lettering artist, and photographer. He is founder of the non-profit organisation "Cup of Color", working on community art projects internationally. He originally came from Hong Kong and is now based in Switzerland. His artworks can be found on kokdamon.com and on IG/FB: kokdamon en-us 2022-03-19 11:03:45 UTC 2026-01-24 19:19:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/389559972/12a4b567bc16aeb67ebe94560fbd546d/Kokdamon_PassingTheHope_jpeg.jpg Hongkonger30624300 https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD/wish/2102911222 Kokdamon: "I opened a Twitter account in September 2019, as I’d heard that many young Hong Kongers are very active there, so I put out an open post asking what they would like me to create for them as a letter artist, and one of the users proposed this slogan. They can never fight just individually on their own on the long road to freedom and democracy, so they start calling each other “Hands and Feet” during the movement, meaning "brothers and sisters" in Cantonese, to express solidarity with one another. Even though they don’t really know each other, they still keep motivating and encouraging each other to sustain the movement."]]> 2022-03-19 11:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD/wish/2102911222 Hongkonger30624300 https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD/wish/2102913855 KokDamon: "Jan 2021. The man is carrying a candle of hope and tries his best to protect it to pass on to the next person. This is the first illustration I started for a collaborative art project called #story3x3, afterwards I sent my artwork to the next artist to continue the storytelling and then it continues until the 9th image. After a year of snowball effect, there are now 170 artists from 66 countries involved and 20 Stories of Hope are created."]]> 2022-03-19 11:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD/wish/2102913855 Hongkonger30624300 https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD/wish/2102916981 KokDamon: "On 1st of July 2019 many protesters occupied the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, I was deeply moved by the video recorded by Stand News of what was happening inside, seeing how people were entering the place to get the others out to avoid being arrested by police after midnight. After posting this image on Instagram, I was surprised the next day to see there’s a viral photo online showing youths in the city (Causeway Bay) with paper that wrote down a very similar message."]]> 2022-03-19 11:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD/wish/2102916981 Hongkonger30624300 https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD/wish/2102918144 KokDamon: "May 2019. A symbol that all of us can be a tankman, resist against the tyranny, fight for freedom and human rights, witnessing and recording what is happening, we shall walk without fear."]]> 2022-03-19 11:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Hongkonger30624300/Kokdamon_at_TCD/wish/2102918144