As he queued to board a flight out of Hong Kong to Taiwan last month, dissident artist Kacey Wong was painfully aware of the extra immigration officials brought in to scrutinise each departing passenger.
Wong, 51, was one of the city's best-known provocateurs, an artist who specialised in satirising and criticising those in power.But would authorities let him go?
"I was able to come to Taiwan so that's good. But emotionally it's very scary," he added. "These were very, very intense moments."Wong announced his relocation last week with a black-and-white Facebook video in which he strolled along the city's famous harbour singing a rendition of Vera Lynn's wistful ode "We'll Meet Again".
Prosecutors dusted off a colonial-era sedition law to target political opinions and an official campaign was launched to purge the city of anyone deemed unpatriotic.Cornell-educated Wong knew he probably did not fit the profile of a "patriotic" Chinese artist. "My emotion says I will never leave Hong Kong but at the same time I am looking at the data of the battlefield always unfold almost on the daily basis ... The data tell me it's time to go," he said.
Wong predicts that critical political art will slowly disappear from the city, taken over by "more and more decorative items". The advice he gives to artists in Hong Kong is to "go underground" and "keep the fire burning" by showing their work at home to friends and close contacts.
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