Paint Swatches for a Home
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Connected by the Pacific Ocean, Vancouver and Hong Kong are both fluid gathering places. These two port cities have long been intertwined. On May 1,1983, the Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific landed at Vancouver’s YVR International Airport for the first time. The migration of not only people and objects, but sounds, smells, textures, tastes, temperatures, and languages have flourished through dedicated flight paths back-and-forth.
Paint Swatches for a Home seeped out of a family emergency that led me back to Hong Kong after being unable to return since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. Reflecting on the paint swatch-walls found in home renovation shops—transient locations for dreaming and imagining one’s future home—these colour fragments were sampled from personal photographs taken during an emotionally tumultuous time of frustration, joy and melancholy.
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🔮 Snack Witch Joni Cheung 🍡 is a grateful, uninvited guest born—and knows she wants to die—on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō, and səlilwətaɬ peoples. They are a Certified Sculpture Witch with an MFA from Concordia University (2023). She holds a BFA with Distinction in Visual Art (2018) from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. As a wicked #magicalgirl ✨ who eats art + makes snacks, they have exhibited and curated shows, off- and online, across Turtle Island. Currently, she is based on the stolen lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples. They are a recipient of numerous awards, including a Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts Fellowship, was waitlisted for the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Aside from art-making, Joni likes wandering down grocery store aisles and drinking bubble tea 🌈.
