In Memory of Qing — A Graph of Places
This artwork is created in memory of Dr. Qing Wang: born in March 1972 in Chongqing, China, and passed away on 31 March 2025 in Canberra, Australia. It transforms geography into a network: world maps are abstracted into clean lines and connections, echoing graph theory and the research community she founded and led through the Graph Research Lab at ANU.
Layout (four nodes, one life-path):
- Upper left (Northern Hemisphere): Chongqing — where Qing was born.
- Upper right (Northern Hemisphere): Guangzhou — where she began her tertiary education (Bachelor of Engineering at South China University of Technology) and undertook further study (including a Master’s degree).
- Bottom right (Southern Hemisphere): New Zealand (University of Otago) — representing her work as a systems analyst and research fellow period before ANU.
- Bottom left (Southern Hemisphere): Canberra (ANU) — where she joined in April 2012 and built an enduring academic legacy in the School of Computing.
The northern points hold origin and formation; the southern points hold vocation and legacy. The lines between nodes stand for transitions—study to service, movement to mentorship—so that remembrance is not a static map, but a connected structure that continues to hold.