A Trip through Virtuality & Physicality with a Lemon

The companion piece substitutes a lemon for the orange while retaining the same procedural scaffold: a citrus subject located at the meeting point of digital image and physical making. Cyanotype reduces the fruit to a Prussian blue contour and tonal field, after which Fung reintroduces yellow pigment by hand — a chromatic completion the photographic process itself cannot produce. Read alongside the orange version, the pairing invites direct comparison: the cyanotype base is procedurally consistent across both prints, so the variation between the two works lives almost entirely in the hand-applied colour layer, foregrounding the painted gesture as the site of difference. Fung's training in photography and advertising at the London College of Printing fed into a print practice that treats the photographic surface as a substrate for hand intervention rather than a finished output. Through HKOP, the only non-profit professional printmaking organisation in Hong Kong, this hybrid approach — alternative photographic process combined with fine-art printmaking — has had a continuous institutional home since 2000.