
Brooklyn-based artist Jia Sung, who assisted Jess X. Snow on “O Wind Take Me to My Country” mural in 2016, returned to Kingston to paint Snow as a muse. The figure of the queer Asian-Canadian artist, poet and filmmaker is situated between the realms of sun and moon to illustrate the complex relationship of a migrant to their homeland and where they now find themselves struggling to assimilate. Sung depicted Snow opening their heart space to grow roots in a “gesture of devotion and defiance, challenge and vulnerability.”