…and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture is a curious attempt to reconnect with the younger self. The project makes use of archival photographs that represent memories of which the artist possesses but has close to no recollection of, revealing the fragility of memories while questioning its reality. Contemplating the “loss” of memory in our “infinite” memory storage, the detachment and disconnect is visually represented through physically manipulated photographs, which highlights the malleability of perceptions on the memories that we hold dear to our heart.
Life goes on. Once in a while, if you decide to pause and turn around to look back, you will find that life is, full of beautiful moments worth savouring.
「素时锦年」 is an illustration series about reviewing the past and savouring the memory through Chinese childhood inspired by my childhood memories from Shanghai, China.
A Little Care is a 3D third-person exploration-puzzle game where you play as Carol, a little girl who tries to recover Grandma’s memories of her youth. It is up to you to find the missing stories in Grandma’s old diary, to help her recall her life’s memories!
The project was inspired by my own experiences with memory loss in a close family member, to raise awareness of and encourage empathy towards elderly suffering from memory loss, or dementia.
Presence of Absence is a collection of images and videos that seeks to explore the fragmentary nature of memory. This project begins with the attempt to reconcile the feeling of not being at home, even though I am physically in one. Through reaccessing past memories and photographing objects that look familiar, I hope to confront the fear of time and loss as I preserve my imaginative record of childhood. By combining three different components – photographic prints, photomontage videos and switchable smart film in my final presentation, it communicates the impulse to rescue the past from erasure, at the same time it also reflects nostalgia as a deception of memory.
Due to globalisation, people are constantly moving and relocating, leaving their hometown for new places.
Like the nomads of the past, the modern-day travellers share similar transnational journeys. However, the experiences are shorter lived, and the memories accumulated less vivid.
Inspired from the transnational movement of people from past and the present, the project aims to reinterpret the process of recording and documenting life experiences through the exploration of memory impressions and materiality.
“In Time”, is a collection of conceptual pieces that revisits the traditional trunk as a memory container, which grows with you in time.
