Launch Pad provided opportunities for recent xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Vancouver-based graduates from art and design institutions to enter into the field of public art. From October 2024 - October 2025, five billboard spaces along the Arbutus Greenway, between Fir Street and Burrard Street on 6th Avenue, featured the works of 20 recent graduates. These exhibitions rotated, with each series displayed for approximately nine weeks.

Connected by the Pacific Ocean, Vancouver and Hong Kong are both fluid gathering places. These two port cities have long been intertwined. On May 1,1983, the Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific landed at Vancouver’s YVR International Airport for the first time. The migration of not only people and objects, but sounds, smells, textures, tastes, temperatures, and languages have flourished through dedicated flight paths back-and-forth.

Paint Swatches for a Home seeped out of a family emergency that led me back to Hong Kong after being unable to return since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. Reflecting on the paint swatch-walls found in home renovation shops—transient locations for dreaming and imagining one’s future home—these colour fragments were sampled from personal photographs taken during an emotionally tumultuous time of frustration, joy and melancholy.

Originally created as a digital response to an invitation for the 50th anniversary of the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC).