August 5: Doing something worthwhile is like growing a fruit from seed

August 5 Doing something worthwhile is like growing a fruit from seed

By Castle Williams

With Weihui, 3:30-6:30

Text from Cynthia 

To avoid the heat wave and to accommodate my schedule, Weihui and I met later in the afternoon. Before this time, we only knew each other through Instagram mutual friends.

Starting with a walk around half of the island, we visited four Tree Chuangs, part of my project with Beams Camp City. Through this walk Weihui and I got to know each other a little more. As a visual artist and an educator, she decided to pursuit her dream as an artist right before the pandemic, highlighting the book “Your art will save your life” that inspired her to pursuit an art career that allows her to continues to make, play and create. We also shared our experiences living and working in New York, a dream place and a homebase for us and many others.

Unknowingly, Weihui chose the phrase “Doing something worthwhile is like growing a fruit from seed” from Cynthia, who is also a Chinese-born visual artist that grew up in New York. Pondering our stories about the home country, we paid particular attention to the earth and the land. Our site is right in front of Castle Williams, overlapping the pink spray text left by the construction crew on the road.