Borrowed Skies

Year	2023
Medium	Mixed media on paper
Dimensions	80 × 60 cm
Type	painting
Technique	Encaustic, tissue, ink, photography

A palimpsest of tissue paper, encaustic wax, family photographs, and hand-written Cantonese text. The piece layers three generations of Chen's maternal family in Hong Kong, each layer barely visible through the one above — the past present but obscured, borrowed rather than owned.