I am a first generation, second wave, and third culture Chinese-Australian. Although I was born in Hong Kong, the place that I most strongly identify as home is within the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. I resigned my job in 2020 when the pandemic and its associated lockdowns arrived in Melbourne, and I was left wondering who I was and where I belonged in Australian society. My thoughts returned to our childhood home, as I believed the answers to these questions could be found there. When the opportunity to revisit this location finally arrived in 2022, I was disappointed to find the place transformed and unwelcoming.
‘Shadow Spaces of Home’ is a materialisation of the home place that exists in memory ephemerally, but no longer physically. It is a sculptural installation constructed using transparent acrylic from the original schematics, along with acetate prints of photographs from my personal family archives.

我是移民第一代、第二波移民、第三文化的澳大利亚华裔。虽然我在香港出生，但是在我心中，我的家乡是悉尼的市郊西区。2020年，疫情爆发，墨尔本封城接踵而至，我因此辞去了工作。突如其来的茫然让我开始怀疑自己究竟是谁？自己在澳大利亚社会中究竟是个什么角色？我的思绪把我带到童年的家乡，因为我觉得那里可能有答案。2022年，我终于有机会回去探访，然而到了之后我很失望，因为那里发了翻天覆地的变化，而且让人不舒服。
在空间里，我的家乡已经不再存在，而“家中的阴暗空间”是对我记忆碎片中家乡飘渺存在的具象化表现。本雕塑装置艺术，采用透明塑料件按照家里的原始户型图搭建，并配上家族相册照片的亚沙打印版本完成。