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Footsteps in Chaoshan

Donglin Wu

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I am a visual creator with a passion for exploring visual language through illustration and animation.Graduating in 2025 with a BA in Illustration and visual media from London College of Communication.

My creative work is rooted in visual storytelling, often drawing on themes of identity, culture, and community. I’m passionate about using illustration as a tool to reflect and preserve local cultures through contemporary and accessible visual language.

I am a visual creator with a passion for exploring visual language through illustration and anima...

College London College of Communication

Course BA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media

Graduation year 2025

Footsteps in Chaoshan is a graphic memoir that documents the author’s journey back to her hometown for fieldwork and local interviews, exploring regional culture. Through ethnographic methods such as observational drawing, photography, and archival research, this visual narrative spans local landscapes, vernacular architecture, folk legends, and ceremonial festivals. Rooted in both personal and collective memory, the work invites readers to rediscover a land deeply embedded in history and emotion, while exploring and reconstructing its cultural identity and sense of belonging.

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Footsteps in Chaoshan is a graphic memoir that documents the author’s journey back to her hometown for fieldwork and local interviews, exploring regional culture. Through ethnographic methods such as observational drawing, photography, and archival research, this visual narrat...

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