By narrating in a prose-like style, Michelle LEE Ho-wing provides another dimension to the notion of Library in her artistic research, “Made to be filled in”. LEE sees her practice as an allusion to the circulation of library books during the Imperial Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. Whereas the books were consistently put into certain order, consequently those dynamic statuses created a temporality both textual and physical space. Her research is initially inspired by the looted books in warfare and she further extends her interest to the site of libraries. She excavates her personal imagination from the descriptive world in Chan Kwan Po Diaries, which was written by CHAN as the librarian of Fung Ping Shan Library, and then steps into the textual space to explore the notion of voids in different objects.

These voids are made to be filled in. The space left by the check-out books on the bookshelf, the unmentioned events in the archives, the inaccessible basement, those voids in the library exist in the form of ruptures, which allure inquisitive beings and trap them. Rather than
futile waiting, LEE reveals another path through reinterpretation of text, reaches the artificially manicured garden and engages herself in the architectural voids. LEE goes on a quest to look for entrance of the ruptures in the wandering journey.