{"id":51463,"date":"2026-05-11T07:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51463"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:20:34","slug":"deaf-artist-who-lost-lifes-work-in-hong-kongs-tai-po-fire-is-painting-to-heal-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51463","title":{"rendered":"Deaf artist who lost life\u2019s work in Hong Kong\u2019s Tai Po fire is \u2018painting to heal myself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For Hong Kong-based artist Apple Tong Wing-yin, Wang Fuk Court has always been more than a home address. It was a library of her life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Tong, a prominent deaf illustrator and graphic designer who communicates through what she calls her \u201csilent language\u201d of art, kept the many canvases that spoke for her inside her flat in the Tai Po housing estate.<\/p>\n

In November last year, that library was reduced to ash in one of Hong Kong\u2019s deadliest fires<\/span>. She lost everything \u2013 her awards, her backlog of street scenes and the sanctuary where she created them.<\/div>\n

In the immediate aftermath of the November blaze at Wang Fuk Court \u2013 which claimed 168 lives \u2013 Tong and her mother stayed in temporary shelters. She shares with the South China Morning Post in a written interview that she felt \u201cforgotten\u201d for days, lost in a noise she could not hear.<\/p>\n

\u2018Moving from chaos and pain to calm\u2019<\/h3>\n

Rather than retreat into the grief, she started to draw again.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the fire, I lost my home and all my past work. When I picked up a brush again, the first emotion I had to put on paper was moving from chaos and pain to calm,\u201d Tong writes. \u201cI needed to turn this disaster into positive energy and use painting to heal myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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