The Mills curated the “Nice to Meet You Kapok!” exhibition, in which kapok trees serve as an introduction to community study and a reminder to all of us to live our lives mindfully. The people on the street come and go, leaving the beautiful trees unnoticed. Collaborating with several art units and local shops, the exhibition is going to showcase kapok trees in Hong Kong and its usage in our livelihood.

After entering The Mills from the Pak Tin Par Street entrance, take the lift upstairs. Visitors are greeted with the kapok-glass work by Maoshan Connie and Caritas Jockey Club Artkids Studio. Walk straight ahead and enter the atrium on the first floor, there is a textual work quoted from Chan Wai’s short story on the memories and imaginations of kapoks. The shop window of Europa Tea Foundry displays the prints by local printing artist Lam King Ting on the relations between kapok trees on Pak Tin Par Street and the pedestrians. Visitors can use rubber stamps and woodcut blocks to print their own kapok trees on papers and sow the seeds of friendship with kapoks.