Ron Wan & Mildred Cheng
“Tell them about your rugs,” Wan teases as he gives Cheng a playful nudge in the arm during a recent visit to Sheung Wan co-working space The Hive. It seems Cheng, who moonlights as a painter, has just purchased a tufting gun so she can turn her trippy artworks, some of them bordering on the erotic, into rugs.
“A lot of my personal work is based on psychedelic experiences,” says Cheng, a 27-year-old vegetarian who goes by the alias “I Ride Dolphin” on Instagram. She is simultaneously head-in-the-clouds and sharp-as-a-tack, and received her bachelor’s from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)’s former campus in Hong Kong in 2017. Despite being relatively new to the field, she has already been commissioned by Zheng Mahler, the Hong Kong-based artist-and-anthropologist duo of Royce Ng and Daisy Bisenieks, to design their book,
The 41-year-old was detained during a police operation in Sham Shui Po and is expected in court on Friday. Possession of firearms without a licence carries maximum penalty of 14 years in jail and HK$100,000 fine.
Eight Hong Kong police officers barred from park after being charged with assaulting, framing street sleepers
The charges against the officers range from assault to misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice
As part of their bail they are not allowed to enter the park where the events are said to have taken place, or to contact any prosecution witnesses