P erched on one of the many hundreds of air-conditioning units I could see sticking out of this particular block of flats in Hong Kong — one of the millions of units across the city — was a square of Astroturf. Was this tongue-in-cheek? Or did it represent a genuine attempt to find some green in one of the most dense cities in the world? A few floors down from the Astroturf was a stray pair of knickers. No clue from which of the myriad ad hoc drying contraptions it might have fallen.
The things Hong Kongers can do with wire coat hangers! The German photographer Michael Wolf, who was based in Hong Kong for two decades until his death in 2019, even published a book called Lost Laundry . There’s a lot of it around..