The Assembly
Wynne Leung // Faint
Faint, is a watercolor piece from a series called Letters from the Mountains. The series was created to reflect on my experience relocating back to Canada, where I was raised since the age of four, and made so many memories with people I love. Working and living in isolation away from friends and family for the past three years, I felt how foreign Canada is to me. Noticing how my throat and body felt hollow despite having come home to where I grew up. How do we find a sense of belonging, post pandemic? What will it take to reconnect again and feel whole and complete? How do we process all that's happened to us in a meaningful way? An experience that carried both loss and personal transformation? Making art is a way to do that for us. A method to make sense of the unprecedented experience. With hope that it will support us through our transformation and emotions.
Born in Hong Kong in 1982, Leung was raised by her mother as an immigrant in Toronto. She grew up amongst a supportive diverse community in Richmond Hill, Ontario. She attended the University of Toronto and studied New Media and Visual Arts. She became a user experience designer for a decade before returning to art making. Combining abstraction and color; she probes the recurring themes of community, belonging, fear, love and grief.
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