Travelling through China with four other artists as guests of the China Cultural Centre in Malta, we were invited to produce a body of work to be exhibited upon our return as part of the Inspired in China project.

 

The journey offered an opportunity to step away from the familiar and engage with a landscape, culture, and visual language very different from my own. Working outside my usual comfort zone, I approached the experience with a sense of curiosity and openness, allowing the unfamiliar to influence my way of seeing and my creative process.

 

Rather than attempting to document China in a conventional sense, the invitation encouraged me to question established ways of working and respond more intuitively to new surroundings, opening unexpected avenues through which observation, experience, and imagination could converge. The resulting body of work reflects this process of exploration.

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