Anonymous

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We're at the Coal Loader Sustainability Hub. It's on Cammeraygal Country by the waters. I lived here five to six years ago for two years or so. I walked here almost every day to have a clear method of thinking.

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Being near the water reminds me of home because the water looks different to Hong Kong. When I'm making work, I use this aqua blue colour, that feels like the polluted ocean there, and it's my memory of that sea. At Coal Loader, it's a bit more grey than the ocean blue, but maybe also that's why I like it, because it's a realistic sea to me.

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I didn't think I was queer for a long time because I didn't feel like I belonged in the queer community that I saw, especially at art school.

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I'm not out to anyone in Hong Kong, in my family. I forget sometimes that it's quite radical to be queer there. At the same time, Hong Kong people struggle with so many more things before being queer can be considered a priority. Queer people in Hong Kong have always existed without the labels. They just live a weird life, and in that sense, I think it's even more queer because it's more radical to just do it without claiming it as part of your identity.

A funny anecdote is I think my great-grandma might have been queer or a lesbian. My great-grandma lived with a woman who was her best friend until she died. So I was like, "Wait, hold up a second."

I think that's more fun to live like that, that my memory of her is now queer.