Type: Visual
Material: Spray paint, Canvas, Paper,
Wood
Size: 70x100 cm (Canvas)
60x60 cm (Wood Piece)
Year: 2025
Left to right:
Pt 1 ‘What Does It Mean To Grieve In More Than 3 Dimensions’
Pt 2 ‘The Other’
Pt 3 ‘I Wonder If I Can Inherit Rejection’
Pt 4 ‘Hakka’
Pt 5 ‘I AM HERE BECAUSE OF YOU’
‘Home Is Where I Grief’ is a series of 5 visual poems in which Hooi-Ying takes you through their research into grief, where it comes from, and how it is engrained into their life. In this journey, Hooi-Ying reaches to string theory to conceptually deconstruct grief in space and time, as this reality could not seem to hold their grief as they needed
it to be held. They open up to generational grief, where hopes, dreams,
expectations, and struggles repeat themselves throughout lineages. With
inspirations from Buddhist ideas of life, death, and reincarnation these
two visual poems intertwine provoking surrealistic imagery with personal
reflections and stories, in which Hooi-Ying tries to find a home in
between worlds — a space in which this grief feels tangible.