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Deaf artist uses painting to heal after Hong Kong fire destroys her work

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A deaf artist in Hong Kong, Apple Tong, is using her art to cope with the loss of her home and life's work in a devastating fire. The blaze destroyed her studio and all her previous illustrations and designs. Tong described feeling forgotten in the aftermath but found solace and a path to healing by returning to her art, channeling her emotions from chaos and pain to calm. AI

RANK_REASON This is a human interest story about an artist coping with personal loss, with no discernible AI angle.

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Deaf artist uses painting to heal after Hong Kong fire destroys her work

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Chloe Loung ·

    Deaf artist who lost life’s work in Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire is ‘painting to heal myself’

    For Hong Kong-based artist Apple Tong Wing-yin, Wang Fuk Court has always been more than a home address. It was a library of her life’s work. Tong, a prominent deaf illustrator and graphic designer who communicates through what she calls her “silent language” of art, kept the man…

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