Found in Translation

“My work combines traditional Chinese fine style (gongbi) ink painting technique with a new Italian fabric called Alcantara, which provides me with flexibility to create layers of detail on a large scale."

"I continue to mix figurative and landscape composition and explore my Chinese identity and family tradition that I have passed on to my daughter, like a tree with deep roots growing on adopted land in the American Midwest."

“Images in this series are visualizations of subjects that cannot be represented photographically, because they do not exist either in the physical space or in the present time."

"Some visualizations are made using photographic references converted into three dimensional models. Others are created by recording periods of time with sound and visualizing them as landscapes."

“‘I'm Home / 我回來了 / ただいま’: an announcement of one’s return, a declaration of one’s presence in the house.  

In Japanese culture, ただいま/tadaima ‘I've returned’ is often met with the phrase おかえりなさい/okairinasai ‘welcome back.’"

"The installation documents the fluid state between experience, memory, and place. Like well-worn film negatives, I revisit patterns, snapshots, and familiar gestures, until they begin to morph, overlap, and degrade.” 

“Like many people during the COVID-19 lockdown, my husband and I stayed in our small house and relied on deliveries to sustain us."

"I painted Sumi ink on Tyvek sheets, then sprayed the surface with an alcohol-based sanitizer, making visible the act of disinfecting."

"Using the flattened delivery boxes as templates, I made various cut-out shapes that I layered and stacked as if they are in some state of being processed.” 

"I have always been fascinated by the relationship between cast paper and drawn or printed images. 

I see paper as an embodiment of culture, as various papers exist in different civilizations that can hold and interconnect experiences and memories like human skin.”

"The method I use for the base paper cast with antique frames is one of Korea’s traditional papercraft techniques called Jiho-gibeop, which is similar to papier-mâché." 

"Images and objects float within dreamlike nostalgia, inviting us to ponder the space between past and future. These fragments reconnect to home and ritual, while exploring how current environments shape us."

"What would these images look like transcending the binaries of East and West, old and new?

Does the connection between origin and identity depend on where one is born? Or where one is going?"