20:13:20:14, 2047

Read as a paired sequence, the title points to 2013–2014 — the years bracketing Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, which began in late September 2014 and shaped a generation's relationship to the city's political future. By presenting these dates as a clock-style readout and dating the print itself 2047, Lai Siu-Wai compresses a thirty-three-year span into a single glance: a formative protest period set beside the terminal date of Hong Kong's transition framework. The woodcut likely uses the flat, signage-like carving and high-contrast inking that characterises his recent output, in which numerical and typographic forms are treated as carved imagery rather than printed text. Across his wider body of work — developed from his base at Hong Kong Open Printshop and during his MA Print at the Royal College of Art — Lai uses the woodcut's slow, manual process to hold political dates within hand-made objects, fixing in material what screens and feeds let scroll past.