Leslie Kwok

A native of Hong Kong, Leslie Kwok received her MFA in Graphic Design from RISD in 2008. Prior to living in Providence, she spent three years in New York where she furthered her interest in art direction and design. She received her B.A. in Art from Yale University in 2003. At RISD, Leslie's thesis focused on exploring the use of diagrams and info-graphics as a means of explaining the connections and relationships between people, places or things. Her work strives to integrate the emotive qualities of humanity into the diagrammatic language and seeks to challenge our understanding of what data visualization means today. She is continually fascinated by the role of graphic designers and their ability to tell unlikely stories in unexpected places.

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Memory Floor Plan
Inkjet print
24' x 36"
2007








Memory Floor Plan changes the architectural floor plan into an autobiographical archive of all the rooms I have lived in since birth. Using this two-dimensional diagram to succinctly re-present my nomadic lifestyle for the audience, I re-interpret the architectural / blue print language as a way to synthesize and make sense of my own personal narrative. The scale of the rooms are proportional to memory. The conventional diagrammatic language transforms the top-down view of this 16-bedroom house into a fictitious visual to re-tell my own story.