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.


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I’m at queen’s park. I saw a plot of soil that had nothing grow around the king Edward statue. It reminded me of a spot in Scarborough in 2021 of which people planted trees. They wrapped the small tree with which curly plastic. I think that’s for guiding how the trees should grow on that slope. It was closed to excavation site exposing the pipes from the ground in the Bendale park. I put some orange tapes around on the iron wires surrounding the pipes. It was to mark a location of which pollution has gotten city to work around the clock to make it clean. I wanted to emphasize how these types of construction affect indigenous identities and lives through the orange colors I saw of the then protests banners, every child matters. It wasn’t confused or anything. It was just a way to draw up the maps and make markings. I ate a Toronto pothole flavoured ice cream today. It was delicious tasting like coffee. I was debating whether I should have a McDonald’s soft serve ice cream or the summers ice cream. Then I decided to have summers one because it’s probably more healthy. Etc. 

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