Earbugz is Michelle Ku + Wenting Li, two muralists and artists based between Calgary/Mohkinstsis and Tkaronto/ Toronto. With family roots in Hong Kong, Michelle maintains a 2D animation practice while also making paintings, sculpture, and murals. Born in Sichuan, China, Wenting splits time between murals, print + digital publication, installation, community arts programming, and comics.
Together, our work and murals are playful, with stylized shapes, recurring characters, and bold colours that convey mood and amplify narrative. We are influenced by childhood memories, our shared Chinese cultural identity, and examining and reimagining the world around us. Offering our unique visual take on the world around us, we make murals as a conduit for storytelling and contemporary myth-making.