Haley Toyama遠 山 氷
I focus my energy on the city I love.
Though there is deep unease for the future of Hong Kong, my practice is a form of protest through soft-power activism. I am critical of Chinese Mainland neo-imperialism acting under the guise of British post-colonialism, the suppression of the city’s political autonomy, and the failure to maintain representative democracy.
I invite the viewer with details and intimate handling. I control the viewer with scale and precision. Utilizing a reductive scale is a deliberate opposition to the language of dominating architectural structures and academic ideals that have come to represent power. Layering fibers, hand making papers, and book binding mimic the piecing and pressing of my hyphenated identity.toyamahaley@gmail.com
Blue, 2019
Silt, 2019Book cloths of the same sheen as Hong Kong’s silt, Lokta and kozo papers, 0.003 matte drafting film, Canson Mi Teintes, watercolor, magnifying glass. Clamshell box 9 ½ x 6 ½”
The Longer It Steeps, the More Bitter She Becomes, 2018
Underground, 2018
The City, Suspended, 2017
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Painter, toyamahaley@gmail.com
