Legacy Globe Light - Artist Collaboration
—- “ Stage Series”
The opera stage is a site of storytelling. A performer steps onstage to assume a role, then steps off to return to lived reality. Within this rhythmic transaction, the boundary between performance and actuality grows increasingly porous. If the stage serves as a metaphor for life, what truths does this exchange disclose?
At the heart of this transaction is light. Light is the breath of the stage—the "let there be" moment where emptiness becomes world.
As light washes over the performer, life rushes in; where shadows recede, infinite possibilities unfold.
Light does not merely illuminate the scene; it animates it, awakening costume and gesture into being.
Key elements of the costume, such as sequins, metallic threads, and reflective materials, are used to create images that catch and reveal more light, exemplifying how radiance is not passive but actively constructed. When the stage darkens, the performers and their adornments return to their own lives, carrying the memory of that borrowed radiance.
The Way
A vision of deliverance opened by God and narrowed into a path that leads to life.
Two forces, oceanic blue for hope and radiant white for the transformative power of God, shear apart along the horizon to form a passage from bondage to promise, echoing the New Testament’s narrow way that few find yet which leads to eternity.
The Truth
A symbol of faith as God speaks to Moses in Exodus 3:14, “I AM WHO I AM,” and Jesus says, “before Abraham was born, I am,” in John 8:58.
Fired with strata of light like the burning bush, the sphere discloses the His identity through an atmosphere of radiance and holiness.
It gathers the Creator’s glory from beginning to end, offering continuity, clarity, and certainty.
The Life
Three ascending currents of red, yellow, and white interweave like living branches across the sphere.
Red signifies the saving blood of Christ, yellow evokes the vigilant and protective presence of the Holy Spirit, and white points to God the Father, omnipresent Creator and Lord of all.
Distinct yet inseparable strokes form a visual theology of the Trinity, and the thickened impasto at each crossing inscribes salvation, protection, and creation into the very grain of human experience.
Meet the Artist
- JCJessie
JC Jessie is a research-based interdisciplinary artist, intangible cultural heritage carrier, and curator whose practice examines intangible heritage through contemporary visual interpretation within the contemporary art scene.
Holding a BFA from York University, Canada, and an MFA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2016), she investigates the material culture of Cantonese Opera costumes, an Intangible Cultural Heritage linked to her family lineage, through varied media and documentary research. Rooted in the Lingnan tradition, her work sustains a living connection between family lineage and Chinese culture.
Her research and documentaries have been archived at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and contributed to a publication by the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Canada, where she was a guest artist and seminar speaker in 2019. Her root-seeking journey has taken her across Southeast Asia, China, and Canada.
Her works have been shown internationally, including a solo exhibition at Fanrong Art Museum, China (2024), and have been recognized by The Sovereign Art Foundation and the Phillip Charriol Foundation. She has presented at the Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Office, CUHK's Centre for Chinese Classical Learning, the Hong Kong International Youth Artists Society, the Hong Kong Culture Festival, and other major cultural events.
Her mission is to reawaken, rethread, reimagine, and reanimate Cantonese Opera art within the contemporary art scene, presenting heritage not as nostalgia, but as a living, regenerative force.