Empowered by the Thread
by Skylar Cheung
The illustration is done in black and white depicting a hand holding up a polaroid of a family, with the Chinese character denoting a surname scribbled on the margin. In the photograph, there is a woman with a child standing to the left of her. There is a cat’s tail and ears popping up from the bottom of the photograph’s frame. You can see the edge of a white tabletop in the bottom of the image underneath the hand with books and lines like wood grain running across it. The background is solid black.
An illustration of a hand holding a polaroid of a family with a woman, child, and cat. There is also a Chinese character denoting a surname scribbled in the margin.
“This illustration invites viewers to reflect on how paraphernalia and other items lost to time reveal the histories that make us who we are today.”
Skylar Cheung is a Toronto-based visual artist who works in the mediums of yarn embroidery and oil painting. Her work has been shown in juried art shows such as Workman Arts’ Being Scene and at venues like the Ada Slaight Gallery in OCAD.