“Connection (络)”

Artist: Yongxuan Zheng ︎

Yongxuan Zheng is a Nscad's printmaking student. Focus on learning and practising different printmaking techniques, such as screen printing, intaglio, or relief.

As a non-native English speaker, living in Canada is often plagued by language barriers and culture shock. After learning printmaking, I try to use printmaking as my third language, and use my mother tongue, Chinese characters, as materials to express my ideas. This print is the third work of my Chinese character series. The big character in the background means mesh or net in Chinese, and when it is combined with other character to vocabulary, it can derive meanings such as network, connection, association, etc. I use this big character as a skeleton to draw a map of the city and use more small fonts to build it. They are like buildings, vehicles, and people in the city. The contents of these small fonts are related to history and culture.