Melaleuca is a genus of plant that is commonly known as paperbarks, most of which grow in Australia originally, where ancient people used the barks to make bedding and bandaged, fire-starting and burial.

The project conducted an investigation of the Shing Mun Reservoir, Hong Kong SAR in terms of a colonial story: In 1770, Captain James Cook, a British navigator, discovered the east coast of Australia, named it “New South Wales”, and declared that this land belonged to the United Kingdom; From 1842, the Qing Dynasty in China successively ceded Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula and leased the New Territories to Britain. Britain has not only become a maritime hegemon, but also a powerful colonial country with Australia and Hong Kong as its colonies. When the British government transported products and goods from various colonies, most of them loaded tons of soil on cargo ships and transported them back to the colonial country because the hulls needed to maintain their weight when returning to
the voyage. Among them, paperbark seeds were brought from Australia to Hong Kong and took root in this way.

Because of its straight trunk and characteristic that is easy to manage, paperbark is often used as a street tree for urban greening, so it can be seen on many roadsides in Hong Kong: Kennedy Road, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon Town etc. But Shing Mun Reservoir is such a unique place: far away from the city, where paperbarks form a forest.
The sound series is made up of two recordings: one is the ambisonic field recording using a Zoom H3-VR recorder, which contains hiking Hong Kong people, streams and other surrounding sounds, which address the relation between Hong Kong people and the Australian-original landscape; the second ambisonic recording is the sound of the barks that sounds soft and flexible. 

There is human intervention in the recording method, that is, I tied the Zoom H3-VR equipment to the tree, and then walked around the tree trunk, knocked the barks, and rubbed it to produce surround stereo sound, which shows the uniqueness of paperbark that makes people imagine how Australians and Hong Kong people treat and live with the barks (In ancient times Australian aborigines used the bark of melaleuca bark for beds, burials) through this sound; 

During the investigation, I also flew a drone above the paperbark forest, and soon I was engaged at the special landscape. It is like a small island drifting from a part of Australia. The scenery and features on it are all from Australia, the southern hemisphere; but the people who walk, laugh, talk and make relationships in the forest are Hong Kong people today.

Reality is illusion. As the landscape and relation of the two colonies of the British government are intersecting and merging, all colonial history is linked here, and then melted by reality, becoming a unique scene in the post-colonial period. In 1997, Hong Kong returned to China, and the British handed over the regime. It is now telling our story of decolonization today.