Sophie Cheung Hing Yee is a current graduate of Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) of RMIT University, a programme co-presented with Hong Kong Art School, majoring in Painting. As an artist, Sophie is intrigued by the theme of freestanding – to treat objects as subject. Through the exploration of materiality of painting and drawing, she has been taking ready-made and daily objects: erasers, pencils, joss paper, incense or newspaper, as her instruments to explore the nature of offset. In this work, Erasing News: Time-Lapse Colours, made with 912 erasers, she spent one year erasing the images of the newspaper. Sophie’s art practice is indivisible with her experience as a disability rights advocate, NGO founder and being rooted in uncertainty as a Hong Konger. “I just picked up an eraser and started rubbing the newspaper, while rubbing takes away something, it also resembles painting. Being consumed and retained, both seem to be able to coexist.”