Amidst the urban imagery, CHOI Yuk-kuen, Bouie concerns about the perishing impression of a city, she weaves and pieces the fragments of memory through painting. It is like searching for light under the overcast skies. The landscapes often remind us of how insignificant we are, the visible and the invisible, the high-rise buildings, the scattered and the gathered, the tiny and the enormous beings… Their co-existence reflects the artist’s state of mind. If a painting is a manifestation of infinite borrowed space and time, Choi attempts to liaise within the gap between the tangibles and intangibles, the indescribable space and time with the light of hope, with the force of urban imagery. In recent years, Choi has familiarized herself with wood and explores the definition of freedom with multi-perspective and layers of time, deepening the state of mind into the material with repetitive processes of preserving, sanding, washing and sprinkling.

After receiving her MA at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2012, she started working in the community and joined an award-winning heritage project, Viva Blue House for six years. She continues to explore different mediums and interdisciplinary collaborations, in the hope of expanding her artistic practices. She never stops her pursuit of painting and her works has been showcased in various interdisciplinary exhibitions, such as the ‘Time of XiXi’ organized by Zihua in 2019, ‘Literature X Visual Arts: The Reincarnation of Lady Plum Blossom’ organized by the House of Hong Kong Literature, and ‘The Pulse of Nature – Lung Fu Shan’ organized by the Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre to commemorate its 10th anniversary. Her publications include the community post ‘Wan Chai Warriors’, and ‘Weaving with Words’, a community-based illustrated book co-authored with Uncle Hung.

Choi has organized exchange platforms for the public and artists. She curated ‘Tokee after sunset’ in 2021, including a community exhibition and a public education program. She has also formed an art collective with other Hong Kong Artists, named ‘CHT. Art Project’, which facilitates and promotes exchanges between the artist communities in Tainan and Hong Kong.

蔡鈺娟繪畫的城市物象，更像在描繪空氣與物件的碰撞，像在晦暝的天陰日，看見有光。除了拼湊在當下不斷逝去的城市印象，也試圖從時空的虛實、不協調、不由自主，在過隙期間嘗試修復、尋找彼此的縫合點。近年常以木及回收舊木為繪畫「夥伴」，從打磨到繪畫，透過身體的勞動、隨意的潑彩、物象的洗刷，在不同視點及層層時間的痕跡中尋找自由的定義。

除了繪畫，喜好為荒誕的事物尋找「再」體，創作可於文字、可於物件、可於平面。2009年畢業於香港中文大學藝術系，於2012年完成倫敦切爾西藝術與設計學院碩士學位後便投身社區工作，在灣仔藍屋這個歷史保育項目工作六年間，開拓更廣的創作場域。自2014年起每年參加巴塞爾藝術展等藝術博覽會外，也參與不同文化界別的合作計劃， 如由2019年字花策劃的《西西時間 — 像這樣的一個作家》、香港文學館策劃的《木每雙生—文學視藝的再世紅梅》，及香港大學龍虎山環境教育中心的十週年展覽《感知自然—就是龍虎山展覽》。

現時著作有《灣仔群俠》社區報版、與雄仔叔叔合作的社區繪本《繑絲邊》等。除個人創作外，蔡氏亦籌辦社區藝術活動如2021年的《土記日落後》，並為「過海的藝術計畫」的創辦成員之一。

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