Artworks
2021 - 2024
2024
About remembering and forgetting
This series of work is about how to remember and forget. Memory is the archival of everyday happenings, piece by piece with intervals being stored up in our brain. However, sometimes it does not work properly, what should be remembered but is being forgotten or being replaced by other, though they did exist in the past.
In this project, Connie uses home found objects as medium, even banal materials, like tapes, labels, plastic bags, all kind of discarded paper, ticket, receipt, newsprints, etc. Through continuous practices to charge them with meaning, evoking an ephemeral sense of comprehending the passage of time.
Title: Remembering and Forgetting, 2024
Medium: Home found objects and mixed medium
Dimensions: A series of installation work in variable size
2023
Home found objects 2023
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Series 1 :
Image transfer and collage of childhood graffiti.
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Home found objects 2023 Series 1 : Image transfer and collage of childhood graffiti. Image transfer on paper 51x 51cm
This is an image transfer collage works. I used to bring some used papers from office, the children like to draw on their back side when they were small. Now, I use these old home objects to develop into a work.
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The main medium is wintergreen oil, which have a symbolic meaning about memories. Wintergreen oil is widely used in by government hospitals for relieve muscle and back pain, I sometimes help to apply this to my grand-parents when I was small. The history often repeats itself, now my daughter sometimes also use and helps me to relieve my shoulder back pain.
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Series 2 :
A collaborative work with family. Reminiscing about the past moments through childhood game and old drawing tools.
Home found objects 2023 Series 2 : Pencils, colorpencils, markers, crayons and oil pastels on paper 51x 51cm
This is collaborative works with my family and aim to relive a nearly forgotten childhood game.
This work is inspired by an old days game which play on paper called 369, our family sometimes play it when the kids were small.
I draw grids on a A1 size paper by pencil, each grid with 2.5cm. We take turn filling the squares with colors, by color pencils, crayons, oil pastels or markers. Those were used by the children for drawing and graffiti when they are small. These old stuffs had been put aside for a long time, and now they can reborn and use to draw this work. Actually, I just want to find an excuse to get together and chit chat, rather than each back to room after dinner to enjoy their me-time.
2022
The dialogue of daily covid life in 2020 and 2022
Doraemon has a time machine going back to the past, but I don’t have it. So I explore the way to record the past moments. The texts which transfer onto the scotch tape are the newsprints of 2020 and 2022, the happenings of those 2 years in COVID now have a dialogue in the same space. After transferring those imagines onto the paper i.e. Artwork (i). Then, I rewind them back to its original state – a roll form i.e. Artwork (ii) where the hidden memories archive more secret and intimacy.
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Newspaper Montage III 2022 Mixed medium A series of 2 works i) Paper 55 x 75cm ii) 2 rolls of tape
2022
A way to collect daily moments
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My memory get worse recently, I blame on brain fog caused by Covid. It drives me to explore some other ways to save the memories. I repeatedly burns a standard mark on the paper, they are well arranged and in good orders, dots look alike but they never be the same, since the burning process have it uncertainty. Each little dot symbolizes every single day that ever existed, it seems that everyday is a repetition of what happened yesterday. Every moment is unique, even if it seems like happened in the past. People and things are keep on changing, we never experience the same situation on any other days.
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“No man ever steps into the same river twice.” – Heraclitus
Daily Moments 2022 Burn mark on old wrapping paper 43 x 56 cm each (2 pieces)
About Materials
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I use old tissue wraps as canvas. I found them in my home’s cabinet, they are slightly yellow with the traces of time. Fragile nature of the materials reflects the fading of memory. I use incense stick to burn marks onto those old paper to record daily happenings. I cherish every moments no matter they are good and bad.
2021
A Bustling Street
This is a series of two works. They depict the same place at the intersection of two colonial named streets - Great George Street and Paterson Street. Diptych with historical context and contemporary issue. I transfer those images onto iron sheet which has a kind of vintage texture to symbolize old Hong Kong. Some fibers still left on the surface which cloud the images, and with sanded and rough texture, mainly in cold and gray tones and some primary yellow for balance and harmony. All these create time passing visual effects, to recall the good old days when Hong Kong was so-called where East meets West. The vertical and cross lines in front of the building just divided these two main streets. Back to now, it becomes a disputed place between China and the West, a kind of chaotic and uncertainty sensation is portraited, whereas the people living there looks like as usual.
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Life Looks As Usual (I) & (II) 2021 Mixed media on metal sheet 91x 61 cm