The texture of reality, the overture to dreams
We hold onto the arms of a great beast
Soft-bodied and singing

2023
Digital print series
29.7cm x 42cmFeatured in Extradimensional (2023)

Behold the golden blood of matter —
worlds sprung between every two atoms.
The texture of reality, the overture to dreams.We hold onto the arms of a great beast,
whose shape we can grasp only in glimpses
and guesses; peeking at the seams.Withholden from waking, we live and bleed
other life. Eyes shut, throats heaving, soft-bodied
and singing. I, as we call, as we deem.This series features three pieces, individually being The texture of reality, the overture to dreams (left),
We hold onto the arms of a great beast (middle), and Soft-bodied and singing (right).Each print was created as a digital collage, by combining and layering various mixed media illustrations, digital illustrations, and photographs by the artist.

What breathes between the last and the first?

2023
Mixed media (acrylic on canvas, clay, yarn)
Dimensions variableFeatured in Extradimensional (2023)

This piece looks outside of sight, seeking enchanted spaces and the strangeness they may hold.
Through gaps of perception, within memories before remembering, among denizens of the dark.Although the truly unknowable remains beyond human hands, is there not beauty in reaching out for it anyway?

One Page at a Time

2022-2023
Mixed media text piece
Dimensions variableFeatured in Extradimensional (2023)

One Page at a Time began as a game of writing: a story constructed part by part over the course of a year, but only during moments perceived by the artist as particular, self-defined bodies of time.Some times were defined by events, by feelings, some by movements or space. Sometimes they exerted themselves just as time, in time.Exhibited here are excerpts from the full body of writing, strung together and rechoreographed into their own retelling of a year.

Wingspan of a heartbeat / Width of a reflection

2023
Mixed media (colour pencil illustrations printed on transparent film, pencil and watercolour on paper, glass, specimen frames)
16cm x 16cm eachFeatured in Extradimensional (2023)

Homes born from blood and bone.
Homes carried on the backs of each other.Homes shared and haunted.
Homes spun by tongue, cut by teeth.This set features two companion pieces, individually being Wingspan of a heartbeat (left) and Width of a reflection (right).

Coral Sun, Sandchild

2023
Digital print
29.7cmx42cmFeatured in Extradimensional (2023)

An aliquot of two lifetimes.This print was created by combining and overlapping pencil illustrations drawn by the artist.A companion piece to In the overlap (2023).

In the Overlap

2023
Digital video
9:22 minFeatured in Extradimensional (2023)

Life and times in the overlap.Tracking the morphing images that arise from overlapping forms, this film treats that very overlap as a subject. It imagines colliding dimensions, and their intersections as a habitat for change.A companion piece to Coral Sun, Sandchild (2023).

Untitled

2021
Mixed media illustrations and text, printed onto cards
Dimensions variableFeatured in Extradimensional (2023) and the Goldsmiths Virtual Degree Show (2021)

Untitled is a set of 42 hand-illustrated, double-sided cards, each side having its own unique image and fragment of text.These interactive cards weave words and pictures in countless whimsical ways, forming an interactive storytelling act that changes with every encounter. They can be read individually or in groups, asked questions, pieced together into stories, or just observed as one would like.In some ways, Untitled is a deconstructed story. In other ways it is a game, a vocabulary, or an oracle — and to the artist they are a friend.These cards are also featured in an accompanying film, As the Ant Crawls. If the cards were a “book”, the film would be a “reading”.

As the Ant Crawls

2021
Digital video
7:50 minFeatured in Extradimensional (2023) and the Goldsmiths Virtual Degree Show (2021)

As the Ant Crawls is a film featuring a set of 42 hand-illustrated cards, which are themselves Untitled.If the cards were a "book", the film would be a "reading" — one of many kinds.This film features audio narration of a text piece, written and read aloud by the artist.
A transcript of this is available in the Extradimensional online exhibition catalogue.

Untitled (Lightning)

2019
Mixed media (wax, interfacing, wood, table legs, chopsticks)

"Maybe then I could let you listen. It might burn but it might be brilliant, and it would be brave."An installation about things that cannot be spoken, but prick under the skin; wounds of silence.

Untitled (Artist)

2019
Mixed media (metal, yarn, interfacing, ink, Chinese calligraphy brush)
Dimensions variableFeatured in WHO TOOK MY LEGS at Deptford Does Art (2020)

A nervous sculpture doing his best.This interactive artwork takes a playful approach to questioning personhood, agency, and the performance of culture.

Untitled (Book)

2018
Mixed media (interfacing, yarn, thread, needles)
Dimensions variableFeatured in the Goldsmiths Interim Exhibition (2018)

A book, if you will.This piece began as an exploration into the idea of what makes a book, questioning the limits of definitions as they themselves fall fractured along lines of form, substance, and tradition. A beginning, an end, a spine that holds it all together, and an ecosystem of pages in between.

Some conversations go like this, 2018

2018
Sound/text piece
3:20 minFeatured in the Goldsmiths "Sound and Language" Exhibition (2018)

This text was written, flipped phonetically backwards, read aloud, and then turned back around.It examines a difficult, nearly violent side to communication, between disparate agents or even within oneself —
and the strange beauty of speech that reaches an ear, against all odds.

PUBLISHED WRITINGSkin and Bone, 2023, prose. Published in the anthology Good Girls Bad Ends by Atelier Arcadia.
I Need to Find a Place, 2022, prose. Published in the anthology Other Worlds by Atelier Arcadia.
From, 2021, prose-poetry. Featured in zindabad zine issue 002: aunty issues.EDITING/PROOFREADINGEditor, Wild Ones, 2022, Chaerin Jung, published by Atelier Arcadia.
Editor, Away From Fairies, 2022, Lynette Teo, published by Atelier Arcadia.
Proofreader, Sixth Sense: Vol. 1, 2022, by Fever Fiction.
Editor, Closer, 2022, Chaerin Jung, published by Atelier Arcadia.

Chin Yuqin Casey is proficient in creative writing, academic writing, editing, and proofreading.
Writing is also integral to her art practice, and a great source of joy in her life.To see samples of writing or discuss future work, contact her at: chinyuqin.gmail.com

CHIN YUQIN (CASEY) is a Singaporean artist and writer whose practice plays with whimsy, words, and other worlds. Her interdisciplinary practice uses various experiments in storytelling to explore alterity, alienhood, play, and what connections and communication might persist across disparate spheres of existence. She aspires to re-enchant the disenchanted, reaching for wonder wherever it may be found.She graduated with first class honors from the Fine Art and History of Art (BA Hons) course at Goldsmiths University of London in 2021.— She is also an art educator, editor, avid doodler, and reader.
She loves science fiction stories, the kind that leave behind a special taste of wonder.
And creatures. And rats. And the colour orange.