Meet Wai Ching Chan
Wai Ching Chan is a Hong Kong born, Auckland based artist, who uses a series of knot, which according to “Wai Ching Chan: Connecting the Endless Knot | The Dowse Art Museum,” 2021, works act as love letters built through the accumulated symbolic meaning of individual knots. Here, ‘The Button Knot’ symbolises holding what was separated together, while ‘The Caisson Knot’ establishes connection between ourselves and the world, and ‘The Endless Knot’ is typically seen as the ‘Good Luck Knot’, which is eternal blessings, friendship and connection.
According to “May Fair Art Fair,” 2020, and “Wishing Well | Enjoy Contemporary Art Space,” 2019, through her work, Wai Ching expresses the need to defend, embrace, reconstruct, and strengthen the bonds and unity that exists between tauiwi and tangata whenua in Aotearoa, respecting the differences in culture. The knots come together like the lyrics to a song and together, they make up a bridge that leads us to discovering and understanding something important.