‘Isle of Anglesey’ is an installation I made for the group exhibition Can you live my space? in De StadsGalerij in Breda. The exhibition reflects on the concept of space both from a physical and conceptual point of view.
Wishing instills hope, and hope creates space in our minds. My goal was to create something that would carry positive thoughts and encourage the audience to contemplate the meanings of hope, love, compassion, empathy, kindness and other positive sentiments. I used QR codes, modern symbols of connecting and sharing, to encode positive words. These QR codes were then transferred onto the porcelain stones. I hope that scanning these codes would bring a smile to the audience’s faces and foster a sense of connection. In addition to the porcelain stones, this installation also includes a selection of ‘Stone’ drawings from 2018 and poem ‘Isle of Anglesey’ from 2023.
ISLE OF ANGLESEY
Isle of Anglesey
‘Making is a form of physical thinking’ Antony Gormley
Five years ago my husband passed away.
Death has never been so close and so sudden.
Once someone asked me, what do you feel now?
‘Like carrying a stone in my stomach’, was my answer.
I started to collect stones on my walking routine.
Each walk one stone.
Not pretty stones, just ordinary small gravel.
I picked one up intuitively and observed the edges that form this specific stone.
Sharp and raw.
Back in my studio, I made a drawing of this small stone.
It became a large stone on paper.
Pencil, charcoal or ink, the drawings are black and white.
There are grey areas.
There, I feel tenderness.
There, I linger on and try to understand my loss.
Five years later I made these porcelain stones.
Sharp edges meeting the soft touch of hands.
Each stone carries a QR code,
a secret language which will go viral when you scan it.
A modern symbol of sharing and connecting.
Each QR code stores a positive thought,
my gratitude to all the kindness I received.
Time is the best healer, keep rolling.
Still, I miss you dearly.
The rock of my life.
Yuk Kan Yeung
26 October 2023
‘Making is a form of physical thinking’ Antony Gormley
Five years ago my husband passed away. Death has never been so close and so sudden. Once someone asked me, what do you feel now? ‘Like carrying a stone in my stomach’, was my answer. I started to collect stones on my walking routine. Each walk one stone. Not pretty stones, just ordinary small gravel. I picked one up intuitively and observed the edges that form this specific stone. Sharp and raw. Back in my studio, I made a drawing of this small stone. It became a large stone on paper. Pencil, charcoal or ink, the drawings are black and white. There are grey areas. There, I feel tenderness. There, I linger on and try to understand my loss. Five years later I made these porcelain stones. Sharp edges meeting the soft touch of hands. Each stone carries a QR code, a secret language which will go viral when you scan it. A modern symbol of sharing and connecting. Each QR code stores a positive thought, my gratitude to all the kindness I received. Time is the best healer, keep rolling. Still, I miss you dearly. The rock of my life.
