Dark Matter
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Making “Dark Matter” was an outlet for the anxious energy inside me. 2020 brought unemployment, instability, heartbreak, climate anxiety, COVID-19, isolation, an existential crisis, and other changes which amplified my depression and anxiety. Because of quarantine (and in a small effort to help nature), I experimented with found materials (including a stretcher, old paintings, canvas scraps, clothes, a Swiffer sweeper, toothbrushes, mesh, string, utensils, chopsticks, pens, and markers). It was also an excuse to declutter my apartment without throwing anything away.
To calm my mind, I focused on the obsessive act of winding, intertwining, and tying for hundreds of hours, channeling this energy into the material so that it eventually threatened to escape and explode from the suffocating confines of the box. This heavy object represents a chaotic internal world, an anxious brain, and our need for connection. It also seems to resemble the virus which I attempt to contain.
Where it's been: 2023: Nuit Blanche (Blitz Art Gallery), TOAF62 (Toronto Outdoor Art Fair), How I See You (Propeller Art Gallery). 2022: Time Spinning (OCAD U), and all of a sudden (Propeller Art Gallery).
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About the artist
I am a Toronto-based Canadian-Chinese multimedia artist, sculptor, illustrator, painter, and maker of earrings. My art practice is deeply rooted in my lifelong struggle with mental health, and even as a child, I found refuge in art making. It is a safe space where I can navigate deeply felt emotions, ... View full profile
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