Augusta Xu-Holland

AUGUSTA XU-HOLLAND

Manifesto

“My Attention Is My Art”

A Manifesto on Creative Sovereignty in a Noisy World

I believe in deep work.

In presence, not performance.

In creating things that last, rather than feeding a scroll that forgets.

I am a person working between cultures, across disciplines, and within her own rhythms.

My time is not optimised for algorithms.

It is sacred, protected—for beauty, rigor, and truth.

You won’t find me online often.

But when I do speak, I will try and do so with care.

Augusta Xu-Holland | Across Worlds

Recent Work

Hong Kong set 1941 with Mary from Silent Tides (2025)

Hong Kong Holiday: A Pause Between Worlds

As it happened, I was also reading Searching for Billie by Ian Gill—a book thick with Eurasian themes (the author identifies as one himself) and steeped in the history of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation. It was the ideal reading companion for someone in the middle of portraying a character from that era—though I’ll admit, nothing makes you question your own identity like reading a book that unpacks it for you.

Augusta JC Xu-Holland

Jun 4

Augusta Xu-Holland posing at a local diaolou in Kaping south China

Kaiping to Me

I’ve found myself in Kaiping—a speck of a city in southern China, two hours from Guangzhou, known more for the people who’ve left it than the ones who’ve stayed. One suspects the place never quite recovered from its most brilliant export: the huáqiáo, or returning overseas Chinese, who came back with foreign educations, expensive suits, and enough money to build themselves European-style watchtowers—diāolóu, they’re called—by the dozen.

Augusta JC Xu-Holland

Apr 30

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