Wind, Moon Gallery and Studio, Tokyo, Japan
October 2024

It is with great pleasure that To the fallen trees… was curated into the exhibition Wind at Moon Gallery and Studio in Tokyo, Japan. The Gallery felt that Japanese audiences would have great affinity with the collaborative work expressing, the emotional impact of the 2021 windstorms in Victoria. The letters were translated into Japanese for the local audiences, it is great to reach a new audience with the work!

On Country/In Residence
October 2024

I am currently taking part in a residency program ‘On Country/In Residence, as part of BodyPlaceProject’s Making Sensing of Place program. Over three days in October, a group of artists will be walking the terrain of the ‘ngurrak barring’ in Mt Corhanwarrabul (The Dandenong Ranges), sharing practices and immersing ourselves in Wurrundjeri country. For this project, I am developing, the ‘Wong Mobile Ancestral Hall’ and exploring the concept of bringing together my evolved ‘mobile’ ancestral home with my physical home on Corhanwarrabul to explore issues of the journey of immigration, living on unceded lands and belonging in place. My work tries to grapple with ideas of where we belong, as a person with an intergenerational immigrant Chinese history in Australia since 1884. The project inspired me to consider more carefully if it is possible to actually locate my identity to a particular place, and thus consider where I would be considered indigenous to. It turns out you can, of course with many questions and complexities along the way in trying to answer this question.