double portrait (after all, you just love the world)
in the raw wind of the new world
there is a light that never goes out
elephant
comes and goes
painfully beautiful, time
wish i will always be there
bio
cv
in the raw wind of the new world
there is a light that never goes out
elephant
comes and goes
painfully beautiful, time
wish i will always be there
bio
cv
In the Raw Wind of the New World
Inkjet prints on matte paper
2023
In the Raw Wind of the New World is the aftermath of a long-distance relationship between London and Hong Kong—a love story sustained through phones and images. The project delves into the ephemeral nature of intimacy and memory within the digital realm. Over the course of a year, as distance dictated the contours of love, images became pivotal tools of communication. Yet, the absence of the beloved within those images echoed constantly. Photographs sent across time zones blurred past and present, turning lived moments into cherished memories while revealing the fragility and vulnerability at the heart of love.
The series emerges from a trove of personal photographs from the artist’s archive with a former partner. Through acts of tearing, cutting, and folding, physical traces are inscribed onto the images—marks that testify to presence and absence, proof of existence together yet also of distance apart. These altered fragments are reassembled into collages that hover between clarity and obscurity, where abstraction meets the tangible and the past intertwines with the now.
By flattening these collages back into photographs, the work emphasizes their tactile resonance, using surface and texture to symbolize the gulf between the digital facade and the corporeal world. What once functioned as fleeting digital exchanges is reconstituted into objects that bear the weight of loss, fragility, and transformation.
This series probes memory and distance, exploring the shifting line between the digital and the actual. It offers a lens through which to consider how love, loss, and longing are experienced in an age where intimacy is mediated through screens. In the Raw Wind of the New World invites viewers to reflect on the mosaic of emotions and temporal dissonances that define connection in the digital age.
Inkjet prints on matte paper
2023
In the Raw Wind of the New World is the aftermath of a long-distance relationship between London and Hong Kong—a love story sustained through phones and images. The project delves into the ephemeral nature of intimacy and memory within the digital realm. Over the course of a year, as distance dictated the contours of love, images became pivotal tools of communication. Yet, the absence of the beloved within those images echoed constantly. Photographs sent across time zones blurred past and present, turning lived moments into cherished memories while revealing the fragility and vulnerability at the heart of love.
The series emerges from a trove of personal photographs from the artist’s archive with a former partner. Through acts of tearing, cutting, and folding, physical traces are inscribed onto the images—marks that testify to presence and absence, proof of existence together yet also of distance apart. These altered fragments are reassembled into collages that hover between clarity and obscurity, where abstraction meets the tangible and the past intertwines with the now.
By flattening these collages back into photographs, the work emphasizes their tactile resonance, using surface and texture to symbolize the gulf between the digital facade and the corporeal world. What once functioned as fleeting digital exchanges is reconstituted into objects that bear the weight of loss, fragility, and transformation.
This series probes memory and distance, exploring the shifting line between the digital and the actual. It offers a lens through which to consider how love, loss, and longing are experienced in an age where intimacy is mediated through screens. In the Raw Wind of the New World invites viewers to reflect on the mosaic of emotions and temporal dissonances that define connection in the digital age.
