liyen chong

These intricate works of exacting and minute embroidery, are created by the artist using her own hair, stitched onto fine cotton. The superb crafting of these pieces and the highly personal thread she uses allows us into the works by way of the artist's personal history. Investigating the graphic and formal designs of European mazes Chong ponders the workings and misworkings of the mind in these two works. They speak to each other in their titles where Chong has drawn two ends of the spectrum of memory conditions to face one another.