“Saving Face” (2020) Digital, Screenprint This piece is about my experiences with hiding my true emotions as an Asian woman. Too often I have minimized myself in the past in order to not cause a stir, but I have found that these feelings always find a way of leaking out one way or another, and it more often than not is a disservice to myself when I am denying my true emotions, or when someone is being disrespectful to me.
“Beijing” (2020) Digital This piece was inspired by my childhood memories in Beijing. My family is from Beijing but I only moved there when I was ten years old. Although I felt alienated from the culture at times, I remember the awe I would feel when I would fly Chinese kites with my mom, looking up at the beautiful designs soaring up in the sky above me while the wind blew the kites away into the horizon.
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