Seika Studio | Nightly murmurs

nightly murmurs

2022

Author: MAK Sunny Shu Kin

Illustration: Seika Studio

Publisher: Post Script Cultural Collaboration

Digital illustration

"Nightly murmurs" ("囈長夜多" in Chinese) is the first ever novel written by Hong Kong writer Sunny Mak (麥樹堅). The story was about a store "Joy Joy Store" (喜喜辦館) located in Guk Au Estate(谷凹邨). Joy Joy Store was a place where everyone in the estate would visit for groceries, it was also the place where all the stories began. You could witness the development of public estate through the ups and downs of the store owner "So Gam" (蘇淦) and his family.

We, Seika Studio, were so honored to be part of the creation and be responsible for the cover design as well as 9 illustrations in the book. It was a challenging project for us as we used to put our focus on animals and plants instead of urban drawings or human portraits. With no doubt this project was a key for Seika Studio to open up a whole new chapter in our business.

Below you will find the illustrations we worked wholeheartedly on, alongside with some quotes from the novel that may help you to realize why we put things in such a way. Wish you would enjoy the artworks as much as we do :)

Steal across the border

當年他憑這雙座頭鯨前槳有驚無險渡過深夜的后海灣，由於體形高大，上水立即被村民發現要報警。

車過元朗大馬路，市面熱鬧繁盛，人多車多，挑擔的、騎單車的穿插其中。從樓宇伸出的招牌惹人注目，周生生金行、遠東銀行、中都國貨、龍鳳大酒家⋯⋯蘇淦提醒自己別看得太入神，露出馬腳。

靠江帆照應，蘇淦逐漸站穩陣腳，在大南街的織造廠找到差事，有能力獨自租住板間房，及後娶了江帆的堂妹江潔晶，傾盡積蓄在新落成的谷凹邨開設辦館。

Layout of Guk Au Estate

Joy Joy Store

江潔晶的營商信條是：百貨應百客。人人有不同需要、不同品味，貨品種類盡量多，款式、檔次要齊全，達至不能盡錄的境界。香菸：雲絲頓、良友、駱駝、希爾頓、萬寶路的銷情有快有慢，但總有捧場客。汽水，多數人選烏黑的可樂，亦有人專揀透明的雪碧、橙色的芬達、氣味像止痕消腫軟膏的沙示（Sarsi）。玻璃樽裝鮮奶價錢一樣，有顧客堅持飲來自神學院的牌子。邨中雜貨舖興昌隆同樣採取百貨應百客的方針，糧油雜貨如白米、老抽、乾貨、雞蛋、火水⋯⋯數之不盡。

So Yu Huen

靈生怕她遇溺，視線一秒都不敢移開，見到連身裙蛇蛻後浮在水面，他第一個念頭是：有穿內衣嗎？第二個念頭是怕裙子隨水漂走。《潮騷》第十三章講海女在庭園海濱午休時袒露乳房互相比較，新治的母親久保富為自己結實、彈性不減的胸脯自豪，卻自知遠遠不及初江那一雙。憑女性經驗與直覺，久保富斷定那是健康的處女乳房，含苞待綻的蓓蕾。宮田初江的乳房，雨絢的乳房，靈生的思想已逾越了界線，然而當他定睛望住雨絢游泳，機心神奇地淡化，一切都是客觀存在而已：一顆黑色頭顱間歇露出水面，前進的水波圈圈擴散，攪擾了溶金似的向晚海面。