Thanks to artist Lie Fhung for this sneak peek at one of the submissions to her Universal Scrapbook, the public participation part of her Dream Archives art installation, sponsored by Kolo. Dream Archives and the Universal Scrapbook will exhibit internationally, beginning in November at SiGiarts Gallery in Jakarta.

This artwork, above, is a digital scrapbooking piece by artist Joei Lau, an art gallery and creative workspace owner in Tokyo, who originally hails from Hong Kong. She interpreted the Universal Scrapbook theme, "Dream," to express her greatest wish... for her family and two countries:

I created this digital scrapbooking piece in Photoshop. I combined a few photos I took from my house. The Kanji Double Happiness is a framed work I received from my best Hong Kong friend years ago when I said goodbye to HK and moved to Tokyo with my Japanese husband.  Handwritings and a journal page caption my loves of HK family and Hong Kong. After spending 14 years in Tokyo, the longer I am here, the deeper I love my home country. I added the word LOVE (digital and handwriting) to express my "double" feelings of these two countries.

Visit Joei Lau's blog (in Japanese) here and the RBR Gallery sites here in Japanese and here in English. 

Note: Submissions to the Universal Scrapbook of "dream signifiers" do not have to be as finished as this example. For more information about participating in the Universal Scrapbook, go here. The deadline has been extended to Sept. 30, 2009 for a few stragglers who have not yet completed their submissions, so you still have time to participate! If you have questions, feel free to post a comment here.)