This installation was a great collaboration, graciously initiated by June Chow, co-founder of Youth Collab for Chinatown. We met June during our first mini installation several months prior, which sparked an idea to create something alike but on a much grander scale, to ring in another year of Pride in Chinatown MMXX.

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"I was raised to know that all people were created around the premise of love: to be loved and to love others. This brings me to deeply believe that as much as hate persists, it never has the final say.

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In June, a small team joined me in outwardly expressing this by creating a flower installation at the Millenium Gate, as an act of "joyful resistance" against the repeated racist vandalism and attacks that had been occuring toward the Chinese community.

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With much humilty and honour, we express this same love tenfold, to the queer pan-Asian community. In all things, love will always prevail."

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A huge thank you to the YCC team, June and Doris of YCC, and Avi, Celina, and Benton, for all your hands-on support! This project was sponsored by Paul Wong Projects and The Flower Factory.