Yuling Chen is a Chinese Canadian new media artist. She is specialized in making works about beauty, labour and racial tensions using media archives exploring histories of new media art. She was born in 1990 on the southern small island of China, Hainan Island, in the city of Danzhou. When she was young she led a nomadic life moving from cities to cities, homes to homes and places to places. Thus, she had discovered her love in literature, obsession with identity, and eyes for design.


Skowhegan Tarot

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Being happy is hard. Sometimes unhappiness finds me in a corner. I have to adjust myself. I’m obsessed with these tarot card designs. They are all really creative. I like playing cards too. Before when I was applying for Skowhegan residency, I bought their tarot cards as well. It was costly. They have to ship it from Maine. Then I lost it during the pandemic. Alex Banman used to buy me this tarot deck from Britain. It’s really beautiful too. I lost that as well. I remember shuffling it on the subway, on TTC in the dead of winter living alone at that apartment. I never said he couldn’t stay there. All I wanted was an explanation and apology. How cruel has he treated me. He just pushed and pushed because I said I didn’t like communist China and liberal party. He ran away in a dramatic fashion. He came back even crueler having me keep staying in that abandoned apartment and never even for a moment offered condolences to our failed relationship. So unkind and shocking that he was. I wonder why he talked to me and replied my emails. I missed my tarot cards. It was all I got. Imageries of beautiful figures and scenery. Etc. 

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