Artwork Collection

Snail's Home

My home is where I fall asleep and where I wake; not defined by place, but my being. I'm always where I need to be with what I need to thrive. Snail's Home explores and celebrates this relationship with the self that gives me a feeling of fullness and satisfaction. Inserting myself in surreal landscapes, realizations of the paths before me and the agency I have over them, I journey slowly, picking up and shedding bits of myself to add and remove from my mobile home and identity.

Painting

A calm heart cools the body

心靜自然涼。 “A calm heart cools the body”; a phrase I would only ever hear in Hong Kong’s summers, said by my mother. She is frugal and eco-conscious, convincing me not to turn on the air conditioner just yet despite the suffocating heat inside our... More

Painting

Fat fat white white

肥肥白白。 I depict myself in a surreal landscape as a place where traces of shame and embrace exist simultaneously. I reference Chinese New Year pictures populated with auspicious motifs of fat babies frolicking in the water, surrounded by red carp... More

Painting

Periphery as core

核心外圍就是內圍。 The periphery is the core. In Taoism, the body is seen as both microcosm and macrocosm; it exists within a larger universe while simultaneously being a tiny universe itself. In my other pieces I take on the role as the dominant figure of... More

Painting

The moon shines her light onto the earth

月光光，照地堂。 The moon represents my mother, my heritage, and the feminine that illuminates the daughter, the earth, me. I am connected with the world because of how she watches over and protects me. Using imagery of the feminine, I depict her as... More

Work by

Hayley Chiu

Drawing and Painting

“My home is where I fall asleep and where I wake; not defined by place, but my being. I’m always where I need to be with what I need to thrive. “Snail’s Home”, or 「蝸居」, explores and celebrates this...” [More]