Star dust memories

Star dust memories
Painted diaries series
By Bernadette Kam Fu LEE

A video to register the various moments of our night walk in Rome ( 2013 ) , our night ride in Hong Kong ( 2018 ) through a poem of Tang dynasty by Wen Tinyun ( 812-870 A.D).

The poem was written on Italian grandma’s rag in Chinese Calligraphy as part of an installation in our garden near Rome ( 2015 ). The translation of the poem on canvas -possibly derived from Prof. Yip of the University of Hong Kong

The newly translated version of the poem ( as captions in the video ) , sung in Cantonese was by me.

To accompany the poem, inserts of video / photos of leaves in gessoed reliefs I realised in Mui Wo , Hong Kong- dated 2018 circa.

Lamp in ceiling, realised by me in 2018/19 circa

Videos, photos, calligraphy, gessoed reliefs , liberal translation of the poem from Chinese to English as captions, captions, descriptions, singing/reciting of the poem by me ( Bernadette Kam Fu LEE )

This sequence is realised under © 2026 Bernadette Kam Fu LEE in ricordo di Antonio Pisapia

I began to realise a series of short sequences in 2025 based on Antonio’s personal diaries under © 2025 Antonio Pisapia & Bernadette Kam Fu LEE to celebrate our lives spent together for 41 years
Bernadette Kam Fu LEE (李錦芙） is one and the same person as LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette
Bernadette LEE is my maiden name in western form while LEE Kam Fu is my Chinese name in transliterated format.

I was born Kam Fu LI at birth. My name LI Kam Fu Bernadette was used during my years at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze ( 1983-1984), (1985-1989)

Bernadette LEE ( or 李錦芙in Chinese ) was the name I used ever since I turned three and a half. ( from kindergarten, schools to Universities)