2026

Hǔ Gū Pó is a Taiwanese myth about a tiger spirit who transforms into an old woman and eats young children to maintain her human body. My work blends the story of Hǔ Gū Pó, queerness, and visual storytelling to create and promote positive dialogue around the sapphic Taiwanese experience. Hǔ Gū Pó manifests herself in my project as a physical embodiment of my character’s queerness, highlighting the parallels between the queer experience and the central themes of the original myth. My retelling is a contemporary coming-of-age narrative that takes form as a hand-drawn picture book.