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How does one form a meaningful, generative understanding of the one’s surroundings in contemporary society? Currently, social media and portable electronics appear to serve widely as methods of filtering and segmenting the world around us into…

Harmony with the land is a series of explorations of graphic narratives based on my lived experience and received knowledge relating to my homeland of Yunnan. The narrations are rooted deeply within the memory, culture and sensation that inhabit my…

Fluidity is explored through the intersections of teaching pedagogy, handbuilding ceramics, and Buddhist spirituality. This paper supports the research and progression to the Immersion installation encompassing witnessing through film and clay.…

This research paper examines the importance and value of matrilineal knowledge and emotional knowledge as foundations for an art practice, as well as artmaking as a means of processing difficult emotions such as grief. The studio research…

This essay interrogates the notion of subjectivity and poses the following questions: How does one become a subject? What positions constitute his/her subjectivity? How are these positions interpreted by others? How can we envision an ethics that…

In this study, I investigate the application of active learning approaches, with the help of call and mall frameworks. These interactive learning solutions emphasize learner-created content, with the goal of improving the vocabulary development of…

This paper outlines the formation of an artistic methodology and an emerging thesis project. Walking and collecting along the shoreline serve as a conduit for creating and point towards a broader engagement with notions of time and temporality. The…

Inclusive Design for Regaining Lost Identity is a research project that aims to design and develop accessible clothing that is inclusive and fashionable to foster psycho-social well-being and to enhance the self-esteem of women with disabilities.…

This thesis document, Enceinte Holobiont, explores the positional, practical, and theoretical underpinnings of my recent sculptures Composite Tension. My thesis (both conceptual and visual) focuses on the model of the maternal body that speaks to…

This support paper seeks to analyze the potential of a new media arts practice in relationship to Second to Fourth Wave feminism discourse. Based on the works produced during my MFA studies at Emily Carr University, I investigate how a humanized…

Through a visual art practice and research, this thesis explores my personal background as a Chinese immigrant, through depicting scattered childhood memory to seek overlooked connections among people, objects, and places. By investigation of…

This paper examines the experience of lucid dreaming both from my own perspective and that of others, as well as the theoretical, psychological and artistic aspects of this phenomenon. I discuss destabilizing factors in lucid dreaming: a term used…

My heritage is glued to colour palette, which is layered underneath historical and contemporary painting influences. In an attempt to answer these questions, I begin to peel back layers of personal history and the physical layers of each painting,…

This project aims to refine notions of ethical design within the commercial communications industry and investigate the potential for actionable support to ethical practice. It intends to provide a unique aggregation and distillation of ethical…

A series of hand-built pottery forms, fired at the Potters Guide of BC Community Gas Kiln in June 2022. Pieces are built using P700 - Grolleg kaolin porcelain (cone 10) using slab, coil, mold and pinched hand building techniques.

I envision the world as an intricate labyrinth of stories, where with each encounter we have the opportunity to learn from the lived experiences of others. The perplexities of human existence and a curiosity for understanding and sharing perspective…

My art practice is based on the study of sensory perception. How can the representation of synesthesia function in an art context, specifically painting? Further to this, what is the role of sensory perception in relation to Chinese cosmology and…

This research began with the body, however nobody (no-body) is the location where this practice presently exists. To be clear, this research is developed through symptoms that develop within a body and then exist outside of a body as material.…

The digital transformations revolutionizing so many aspects of contemporary culture are also dramatically changing government services. Designers have an important role to play in these shifts. A wide range of government services— from applying for…

This thesis project researches the ethology of grey squirrels and their links to human systems to speculate possible futures in hybrid human development through artistic practice. Humans living in urban spaces interact daily with nonhumans as cities…

My project aims at using Yorùbá storytelling frameworks to tell stories about my experience with lack of black communal culture here in Vancouver. I tell these stories through the Yorùbá lens of ‘the spectacle’- a show put on to teach and entertain…

This text is my reflection on this journey of exploring, study- ing, contemplating, learning and unlearning, in different layers and different voices. Metaphorically, it is in the shape of a palimpsest. The process of writing it consists of erasures…