NARRATOR:

This work titled Doors is a calligraphy work on a pair of wooden doors, created in 2003 by Tsang Tsou-choi, also known as the King of Kowloon. These doors are a bit oversized compared to regular ones: each door is 211.5 centimetres high, 167.5 centimetres wide and 11.8 centimetres deep.

This is a pair of brown wooden doors that look very similar to one another and are symmetrical. About a quarter-way down on both doors, there is a horizontal rectangular slit in the door that we can see through.

Traditional Chinese characters are written all over both doors in blackish brown ink and can be read vertically from right to left. The ones above the slit are a bit larger than the ones below it. The characters on the right door are a list of names of Tsang’s ancestors, the historical period in which they lived, and the number of generations of Tsang’s family, from the 15th generation to the 19th generation. Similar to the right side, the left door also lists the name of the Tsang’s ancestors. Yet, instead of writing down the number of generations and the historical time they belong to, Tsang lists where they lived.

Near the centre of the double door, a ring door knocker is installed halfway up on both doors. Patina has spread all over the hemispherical base of the knocker.

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