Artist statement: ‘Through the office window looking glass’ references the Postal Hall’s first floor windows, which were bricked in – forming the billboard shape – when the mid-century Russell Street Telephone Exchange and Post Office became a residential apartment building in 2001. The windows provide a frame for my artwork, the backdrop for which transports the viewer to a 1960s Mad Men style corporate office, while referencing the building’s era and the nostalgic, lush aesthetic of Wong Kar-wai’s renowned film In the Mood for Love. The artwork features Scarlett So Hung Son, my drag persona, who appears as six different office ladies, dressed in colourful cheongsam against the typical 1960s code. She strikes a series of different poses, but they all peer down to the ground level, reminiscent of scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s cult film Rear Window. The building’s history is rewritten when I, in effect, reinstates the first-floor windows revealing a glamorous, performative secretary, expressing defiance of her 1960s cultural environment through bright and assertive traditional tailor-made costume and powerful presence.