The following day of the event, I enjoyed a mural painting jam with Hofan. No rules, no restrictions, paint, paint, and paint....
beautiful photos by: Janice Im
2/08/2011
Choi Yuen Village art festival -@ 菜園廢墟藝術節 Day 2
The following day of the event, I enjoyed a mural painting jam with Hofan. No rules, no restrictions, paint, paint, and paint....beautiful photos by: Janice Im
Choi Yuen Village art festival -@ 菜園廢墟藝術節 Day 1
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While I was waiting for the moment to arrive, I was breathing in such sadness and helplessness for being there. I felt helpless as a person, as a plant, as an element existing on this earth. My whole body felt heavier and heavier as I was breathing. I felt so little as I was feeling the size of this whole village.
Thank you Joanna Lee, Sukii So and Gary Lee for sharing your photos,!1/20/2011
Mother
Mother, oil on board, 40"x60", 2010Gabe and I spent our whole summer last year around our sister-in-law at our parents home in MN. This is a portrait of my sister-in-law, Liz, and her first son Issac. I knew Liz for almost 5 years before this summer but I was blown away by the energy and glow she had after she gave birth to Issac. I felt so happy and proud of her. The beauty and the power of a strong mother was so incredible. I immediately wanted to capture her moment in my painting.
My first attempt was painting on a small oval canvas, and give it to her as a gift. But as I was painting it, I felt that her strength and the essence that I wanted to capture was not enough in this small canvas. SO, for the 24 hour painting challenge in 2010, I started a new painting of her.
Since I was working at school for 24 hours, a student was critiquing my work.
After painting for 12 hours straight, I was thinking well... when you give birth, there is not such a thing as to stop and do over! So I wanted to try painting for all 24 hours straight, as much as I could! In the end, I couldn't finish my painting in 24 hours, so later I worked on it at home. It was a fun meditative journey and it is dedicated to all the mothers in the world.
Also the project was accompanied by two other crazy artists, Gabe Ostley (my love) and Mark Montgomery who worked on 24 hour comics on that day!
1/02/2011
Dance at the Walled Villages
My friend Amy Ka Man Tam and I joined a dance festival called "Dance at the Walled Village - Hong Kong History Series II". The project was organized by (Community Cultural Ambassador) y-space .
The aim of the project was to introduce modern dance and site specific dance into the rural area of the New Territories. And also to use the narration of dance to explore the relationship between human and nature. The project hope to enhance the community's awareness of rural culture preservation, and arouse concern in the marginalized lifestyle of the walled village.
It was an amazing experience for me to just visit those villages in New Territories alone, to be able to perform on those sites were such blessing. We performed on Jan 2nd at Sheung Shui (Liu Man Shek Tong Ancestral Hall), which was a breath taking place. The temple was about 15 minutes away from MTR, right next to the village where each houses built one foot step away from each other. We wanted to narrate a simple story of two village fairies, who love people in the village and defeat any difficulties in life and are always there to share the happiness in life.
We invited some children in the audience to dance with us! When we picked them, their faces lit up! and it was sweet to see them smile so BIG!! 
The music of the performance was composed by our dear friend Samrit Lwagun. He composed this music RADHEYA for his mother. When we heard his music, we thought it was a perfect fit for our dance because we thought the temple of the village is just like a mother to the land and their people. 
photos by my dear love Gabe Ostley!
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