In my early works, I create artworks about sound and music. As a musician with absolute pitch, the ability to recognize a pitch without an external reference, sound is an integral part of how I experience the world. Through my collection of glass work, I take the audience to examine the different sounds created by glass. Sounds can be dramatic and poetic when created with the transparency of glass. Each tone and pitch can be generated by either the thickness of glass, or the materials that hit the glass. On the other hand, I like to visualize sound in the form of sound waves, vibration, musical movements and modified music scores in my artworks.
As my sound and music works keep evolving, I slowly incorporate language in my sound works. Although music is not a verbal language, I realized that music is also a universal language as a way to share information that many people can understand. As a person who understands and speaks 4 different languages (Cantonese, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese), I am constantly translating languages to music inside my mind. Glass is a transparent material that can be seen through layers. Likewise, languages have layers of translations. I am interested in the difference and similarities of different languages, not only in speaking, but also in writing, in understanding, in intonations, in gestures, in cultures, in marks making.
Language is the key to communicate, and express feelings and thoughts. Because of that, I like to make most of my artworks and installations interactive. By having audience experiencing my world of translation, music and cultural background, I aim to bring people together to connect with each other, build relationships, and create a sense of community through communication.
