Nancy Liang, “The Forgotten Sydney”, Computer Graphics, Endless Loop Gifs

Nancy Liang is a Sydney-based illustrator who focuses on the night tales of urban landscapes, city streets and the often forgotten places of suburbia. She represents these subject matters using drawing and kraft paper cutouts arranged in the visual form of a diorama. Her practice also extends off the page from print to animation, where she enjoys creating animated scenes and looping GIFs in her spare time on her blog ‘Over the Moon’. She is also an art tutor at the International Art Centre in Carlingford, NSW.

“The forgotten historic infrastructures of Sydney once held much significant value in the past, many posing as places for social, intellectual and cultural hubbub. Today they stand behind the backdrop of modern society, some reforged as commercial estates, others moth-eaten by nature and time.

The moths pictured draw loosely upon a Chinese belief. When a large butterfly or moth enters a house or a place it is the soul of a recently deceased visiting for the last time. In this case, it is spirit of the building bidding farewell to its physical form.” – Nancy Liang