Until the mountain is covered by the snow

Growing up in the 90s and inspired by the philosophy and aesthetics of an 'East meets West' art education led by a group of New Confucian exiles in British Hong Kong, my practice is an ongoing negotiation of Hong Kong's reality coinciding with its drastic social changes over 30 years which is reflected in my practice a result of my homeland's decolonisation from constitutional monarchy to Britain and China. Drawing on diary entries since I left Hong Kong for Vancouver in 2022 and reflecting on the conversation between Yang Lian and Gao Xingjian, two Chinese writers in exile, I ask how self-exile has altered my perception of my relationship to land/home, and how this has transformed my thoughts on the idea of "landscape." Taking my painting "Mountain de-bonding" as an example, I examine how the work has changed from its original plan to its realization in Vancouver.