Podcast series: Afterall x Para Site, Reframing Strangeness
Ha Bik Chuen was known as a collector and hoarder of all sorts of things such as books, photographs, documents, to name but these. Reflecting on the drive of collectors and hoarders and in an associative move that expands from Ha to other collecting practices in Hong Kong, Afterall Editor Adeena Mey speaks with Hong Kong-based collector and consultant Mike Fok about his lifelong passion for Yixing teapots and Chinese tea culture in our third and last episode of ‘Reframing Strangeness’. Mike shares how his journey began more than twenty years ago, when a taste of aged pu’er tea sparked his curiosity. The search for good tea soon led him to teaware, and eventually to the world of Yixing clay teapots – renowned for their craftsmanship and unique brewing qualities.
