Some families celebrate the Chinese New Year with gold coins, red envelopes, and firecrackers. Belgian designer Charles Kaisin, however, is ringing in the Year of the Goat (or sheep, depending on your personal views) with a massive hanging goat sculpture made up of 13,500 tiny golden origami horses, each hanging from a red ribbon. The 11-foot tall array hanging above the PMQ courtyard in Hong Kong is a throwback to 2014, the Year of the Horse, but for Kaisin the sculpture is about more than just a yearly transition:
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"HYPHEN implies a link between all memories of the past year and all the beautiful moments to come," explains Kaisin. "It is also a symbol of union made of any suspended network in the image of the frame of human relationships. The connection of red and gold not only represents the prosperity and happiness but also a harmonious assembly of human beings in the universe. This is what hyphen, which means under and one, conveys in ancient Greek."HYPHEN will be on display until March 31, 2015, so if you've already failed the first round, add seeing kaisin's installation to your second wave of resolutions.
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