Harbour Scroll: The Trinity Panorama was a participatory artistic project initiated by Zorg Yifan Jing, drawing inspiration from the long-scroll tradition of Along the River During the Qingming Festival to reimagine London’s Trinity Burf Wharf through collective drawing. The project invited the public to sketch the riverfront as a shared act of looking, remembering, and imagining, weaving individual observations into a contemporary handscroll.

Trinity Wharf is a landscape shaped by layered histories—from Victorian docks and shipyards to today’s artistic community. Through drawing, participants engaged with the site not as a fixed image, but as an accumulation of moments. Each contribution captured a fragment of time, and together they formed a horizontal narrative in which past and present coexisted.

As the scroll unfolded, time was no longer linear but lateral. Different eras, gestures, and perspectives flowed alongside one another, allowing the riverfront to become a readable history shaped by many hands. In this process, drawing became a way of making culture collectively—situating each participant within the landscape they depicted.

The completed handscroll, mounted in a traditional Chinese silk format, was presented in full at Hackney Gallery from 15–16 December 2025, inviting viewers to encounter Trinity Wharf as a living panorama between past and present.

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For further reading, see Create! Magazine’s feature on Along the River (click here).

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