Xiang’s works explores perception, identity, and lived experience, engaging with themes of memory and emotional landscapes. As an autistic artist, Xiang approaches making as a way of translating sensory experience into visual and tactile forms. She will continue this exploration entering the University of Regina’s MFA program.
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We Are Made of Stars is an installation about neurodiversity. Inspired by the Chinese metaphor “children of the stars,” the artist reinterprets isolation as a constellation of shared presence, suggesting that the unknown is something we move through together.
For many autistic individuals, the great unknown has always been present: in social rules, expectations that were not predicted, and questions around the future. The installation makes them visible, creating a space where they can be shared and gently held. Words shift and overlap, resisting fixed interpretation. Viewers are invited to move through the tranquility, imagining the unknown with openness and optimism.