Created on the 4th January 2019
This painting was the start of building a community for the Asian Creative Network (ACN: Sydney). We painted our hopes and dreams for 2019 while remembering the frustrations from the year before, driving our hopes.
A little about ACN: Sydney
The Asian Creative Network is a group dedicated to promoting connection, collaboration, and support for the Asian creative diaspora to relate and connect with each other. We all shared a similar story – we had goals and dreams, but because of our parents’ sacrifice for our better future, we could only pursue our passions on the side. We shared stories about our struggles, the lack of representation, the stereotyping and the general uphill battle to do what we love. And we found that we were not alone. We found variations on our own stories told through the lips of strangers, that there were so many more out there who understood that we didn’t create in spite of the fact we’re Asian, but because of it. We are the Asian Creative Network. We span every discipline and every country. We create, and we are Asian. Our identities cannot separate the two. That is why we are called the Asian Creative Network.
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