Mix media, 2022-2023, size unknown

This project name "Hoklo". This work was created based on my grandmother and mother's culture. In this work, I focus on one of the Hoklo people's culture: The wedding culture, and there is a famous custom named ‘Dragon boat dance'. And it was one of the events that I still remember and joined when I was small. In this project, I group up the new phtography and old photographys. Due to tradition, when the Hoklo people marry, the groom's family needs to go to the bride's house to welcome the bride. The female relatives of the man's family will organize to pick up the dragon boat at the door of the woman's house as a process of going to marry the bride, to welcome their relatives. Because now the people moved to public housing estates, so "Dragon Boat Dance" is held in the land instead. This is the traditional wedding custom and the regional cultural characteristic of the Hoklo people. And the most important and interesting is it is a female-dominated traditional practice without male participation. The female Hoklo people will stand on two lines, one by one, imitate punting on the water and waving their paddles in accordance with the rhythm all the way forward, and shout out loud the "hey, hey" sound. There will be two people beat the gongs and drums rhythmically, leading the people dancing together. If you heard some of these sounds, that means there is someone going to marry. The scene was really shocking.

GongBi on paper, 2024, 68 x 136cm

The work is called <Us>, and it depicts one of my old photos of me and my younger sister going traveling. I drew inspiration from photos of my childhood. In the past, I have done an acrylic version painting which is also named <Us> and about me and my sister and using my old photo to create the work. I used a gray color and some texture to imitate the feeling of a stone monument in the background. I changed the floors in the photos to wood-colored floors, making the space won’t look strange. About the clothing of the two characters, I didn't follow the photos to fill in the right colors, I did a different match to the shirt and the shorts, so the color wouldn't be too sole or too alike. I used Eosin to do the shadow part and I chose a darker skin tone, luckily the color shows out. The skin tone is not a beige color. The two characters are the main point of the work, so there’s no special background.

Illustration, 2024, size unknown

The artwork is about my own community. I designed some souvenirs for my community and pretend to be the docent and hold a guided tour of Tai Po, to give an immersive experience to the audience. Each of the audience who join the guide tour will receive a bag with souvenirs, inside the bag, there are a total of six items. There are seals with transparent cards and small stamp pads in the box, also maps with a sticker pack and an A5 zine which is introduced in some places in Tai Po. In the project, I think of cattle as a kind of metaphor that is like a vibe, type of person, ourselves and also Tai Po people. Because cattle are so calm and stick together, like citizens in Tai Po, although the place was small , somehow the citizens got connected with each other. And I think cattle can bring out some reflections like why it seems that cattle can go out to the city, maybe because they are the stray cattle, and the stray cattle needs to be noticed. In the early days of Hong Kong, farming was the main occupation, so I think the cattle can be a good example to use in my project. I use two workshop to present. I ask the audience to play with the map and the sticker. Inviting them to plastered all over the stickers in the map in 1 mins. What they think about the place should or may have, can also put the stickers on, there will be no right or wrong answer. And while they were playing the map, I kept introducing the place in my community. Also asking the audience to play with the zine by putting the cattle's seal inside everywhere in the zine.