Two island cities, surrounded by sea, punctuated by mountains – Hong Kong and Penang are related yet distinct, familiar yet strange, close yet distant.

Over Mountain Over Sea explores this gap which connects and separates the two cities. In a body of work created for Blank Canvas’s new home at Lorong Soo Hong in George Town, South Ho Siu Nam, known for his gentle yet perceptive photographs of his hometown Hong Kong, turns his eye on the streets, hills and waters of Penang.