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Paddling Home is a floating apartment created by Kacey Wong. This video, made in collaboration with David Attali in 2010, is a single-channel HD digital video with colour and sound. The duration of the video is 5 minutes and 53 seconds. This video captures the moments when the apartment was launched into the sea.

The video records the process of Wong transporting the apartment to the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade and launching it into the Hong Kong Victoria Harbour during daytime. The apartment floated on the water like a boat. Wong explains his creation in the video. Dressed in a full white sea captain’s uniform, he boarded the boat at the stone breakwater at the promenade and set sail. While the apartment was floating on the open water, Wong carried out a few activities, such as paddling with a pair of paddles, sticking his upper body out of the roof hatch and looking back at the shore with binoculars, putting on a life jacket with orange and yellow horizontal stripes, fishing and golfing on the turf-covered roof, and waving at the audience on the shore.

Paddling Home is a miniature apartment that can only house one person. It’s a concrete-walled cube with sides of four feet, that’s about 120 centimetres, or about the height of an adult’s chest. The cube is set on a floating platform that’s mounted with black tires and blue plastic barrels, with a motor installed at the stern. The exterior of the apartment is tiled with long, pale pink ceramic tiles, and has a roof hatch and a bay window. On the left and right side of the bay window, a vertical white ventilation pipe and a window-type air conditioner are installed, respectively. Below the air conditioner is a lifebelt that is divided into four sections with alternate red and white colourings. Through the lifebelt, a square flap door can be seen on the wall. The captain may sit in the apartment, stick out a boat paddle through the flap door and paddle. The roof of the apartment is covered with turf and the regional flag of the Hong Kong SAR is raised on a pole. On the wall that faces the stern is a stainless-steel door. Next to it is an electric doorbell, below which, near the floor, is a red Earth God shrine. Inside the apartment, the wall is of ivory white colour and the floor is timber. On the wall hangs a life jacket and a photo of the captain. A fishing rod leans against the wall, and the windows are curtained. On the bay windowsill sit a desktop mirror, a pair of binoculars, a small model of a copper diver's helmet, a bottle of red wine, and a wine glass.

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