‘I’ve always loved new digital technology and how we can tell stories with them. Learning about the advancement in 3D and realising how much of it had seeped in around me, it seemed like such a wild way to reinterpret the dreams.’
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‘The most important thing I have learnt is that it’s not about providing more women with the opportunity to work in this sector—it’s about creating opportunities.’
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‘Creating, to me, is therapeutic and naturally one of the only things that can bring meaning or purpose on a day to day basis.’
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‘Even though I’m proud to be one of the trailblazers, I’ve never been interested in being the first—I want to be the best. So that’s how I push on. Breaking the ceiling will never be enough for me.’
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‘I don’t think that self-care and social responsibility can be separable in these times.’
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‘Dialogue is often sparring: listening, absorbing, deflecting, anticipating.’
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‘We’re not in poetry for the fame or the money, but for the love of it. Hold on to that as much as you can.’
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‘One day sitting on my dad’s shoulders, I saw heaps of rubble, but while turning my head my eyes caught the shimmering sight of the Jarrahi river. It was a striking contrast that lingered in my mind.’
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‘I’ve learnt to be curious and do research each time I introduce a new element to the story: whether it’s an object, a method, or the way people interact with one another. Often the answer makes the writing or art much more interesting than it would have been if I’d relied on instinct.’
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‘To me, being Asian-Australian means that I have to entertain multiple view-points all the time. This is incredibly rich fodder for an artist.’
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‘I often try to draw a little bit faster than my brain can keep up. To draw more from the gut, and less from the head.’
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‘Monuments are dialectical and they seep into our periphery.’
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‘I think we all write about ourselves to some degree: heartbreak, loss of youth, grieving, fictional or non-fictional.’
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‘I suspect the most important public intellectuals didn’t set out to be public intellectuals.’
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‘I find it important for me, personally, to be honest about my shortcomings and mistakes, but I’m also a bit wary of saying that everyone should be humble because enforcing humility can be and has been used by powerful people to harm powerless or less powerful people by keeping them down.’
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‘Sometimes I don’t even get how I feel about something until I give shape to it through writing.’
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‘I think that the role of the artist is to diagnose and criticise power, the ideology of capital, imperialism and unjust war and the corporate state.’
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‘What I’m trying to say is that fashion isn’t necessarily about symbols in my work, but how I translate it, and in turn how that is read.’
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‘I came to America in 2015 with this kind of huge expectation that I was going to revolutionise the way Americans ate vegetables. Instead, I was confronted by my colouredness. What I didn't realise is that I would really challenge people’s perceptions of what and who an “Australian” is.’
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‘I’m on a path of detaching my ego and abstract notions of success/failure from my arts practice. It’ll be an ongoing process but I’m already discovering much more nourishing ways to collaborate and learn from others.’
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