劉清華，生於1991年香港﹐2014年獲得香港城市大學創意媒體文學士（榮譽）學位。她以片段式的影像探索敍事的可能及以身體的記憶為創作題材，著眼於不同媒介本身的獨特性及其質感之可塑性。作品涉及錄像、動畫、裝置等元素。其作品曾獲「香港第二十屆ifva獨立短片及影像媒體節」新媒體藝術組別銀獎及本地最佳作品，又曾於奧地利林茨電子藝術節、瑞士、日本、台灣、芬蘭及香港等地展出。她現時為香港「句點。」藝術群體成員之一。

Born in the City of Hong Kong in 1991, Jess Ching-Wa Lau gained her BA (Honours) in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. Jess’ work applies themes such as narrative fragments, body memory and focus on iterative manual processes and the aggregation of time. Being raised in a highly dense city, she explores the relationship and the distance between people and the city by her body experience, incorporates trails of everyday life such as human voices and handwriting in her media work, attempts to compose poems with ‘moving images’. Jess’ work involves a wide range of media – videos, animation, installation – it explores the uniqueness and the malleability of each different medium, for example, outlining the action and reality with stop-motion animation. She is a member of the ‘Floating Projects Collective”, an experimental artist-run space in Hong Kong.

慢慢來比較快

行常書寫，即使沒有發表機會；在書寫中重整生活以及一些情感狀態，在其中尋找希望發展或單純地想「想下去」的東西，或着眼於書寫中不能被滿足的部分（最為重要）。好好把這個東西記住，在腦內發酵。不想創作的時候，盡可能不創作，好好生活。

2020年起，每當疫情放緩後，隨之而來大量而密集的社交令我難以投入創作狀態。

The Slower the Faster

Write often, even if you do not have the opportunity to publish; reorganise your life and emotional states in writing, look for something that you can develop or simply ‘think though’’, or focus on a particular part of writing that cannot be fulfilled [this is the most important part]. Keep this in mind and ferment it in your head. When you don’t want to create anymore, try not to create and live well.

Since 2020, when the epidemic has easen, the following enormous amount of socialising has made me difficult to get into a creative state.