Berry prefers to play with scale when composing an altar—she doesn’t like everything to be the same size. One way to do that is by filling small teacups and rice bowls with incense.

Colourful costumes and high hopes at Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, as devotees burn first incense sticks of Year of the Snake.

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to pray for good luck in the Year of the Snake.