Chan's work Celadon Weaver was part of a group exhibition, "Up-Close, Hollywood Road" (2020), a collaborative project involving four antique stores on Hollywood Road in Hong Kong's Central district that aimed to spark a dialogue between history and modernity and between art and craft.

Curators Hilda Chan and Iven Cheung commissioned five contemporary sculptors - Oscar Chan Yik-long, Lam Tung-pang, Lau Hok-shing, Bing Lee, and Chan - to create contemporary relics, ones which define the present for people in the future.

The artist started with broken ceramic wares in different shades of green, more specifically Qingbai ware, Longquan ware and Yaozhou ware dating from the Song to Ming dynasties (10th to 17th centuries AD). Studying ceramic shards is not only essential to the understanding of the authenticity of ceramic wares, it is also an invaluable opportunity to learn more about and appreciate their unique craftsmanship.

For her work, Chan polished these shards into oval discs and set them in silver bezels, which were then connected to a chain mail of interlinked metal rings. Inspired by the gallery owner’s collection of textiles and furniture, including a Ming dynasty clothes rack made from huanghuali (“yellow flowering pear”) wood, the chain mail with the shards is draped over a free-standing structure, resembling a piece of fabric flowing over a clothes rack. The monochromatic glazes, humble shapes and undulating carved motifs of the ceramic shards reflect the sedate beauty that Song dynasty aesthetics and philosophy aspired to.