Movana Chen discovered her artistic voice in 2003 when the SARS outbreak fundamentally altered life in Hong Kong. While helping her father shred company documents—an act made necessary after the outbreak forced him to close and relocate his business to mainland China—Chen had an epiphany: inspired by the repetitive act of shredding paper, she took a magazine she liked, mimicked the shredding process, and knitted its strip-cut pages into her first artwork, a dress, an unexpected first step in becoming an artist.

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