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I am a multimedia fiber artist working with textiles gifted by friends and family.
My practice is shaped by my southern upbringing as a third-generation Chinese-American, whose family settled in Memphis after immigrating to the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s. I intentionally use secondhand material gifted by friends and family, including decades-old textiles from working in my grandparents’ restaurant and grocery stores — such as tablecloths and butcher aprons.
Mama and Papa — The banquet at Chinese School Cleveland, Miss., Sunday, June 9, 1940
Mom and Dad wedding reception, 1967
Dad at grocery store, circa 1960’s
Processing Often
Amalgamation
with Charles Havelka at the Germantown Community Library in Germantown, TN. Aug 2024-Aug 2025
“Amalgamation is a 15-foot-long sculpture that transforms the structure of a Chinese Dragon Centipede kite into a human spine. Crafted from wood and embellished with a quilted patchwork of clothing and upholstery fabric donated by friends and family, this colossal sculpture unifies Eastern and Western cultures, personal histories, and artistic expression. This piece invites viewers to consider the intricate relationships between people and cultures, questioning the concept of assimilation in favor of more reciprocal and rewarding cultural interaction.”
thank you to Cat Pena with Germantown Public Art, and Germantown Community Library with Chad and Mike helping us install!
Time and Space
Crosstown Arts Residency, 15Sept - 15Dec 2021, in a wonderful studio and with some exceptional artists
Pyf
Wayfinding
Wayfinding through time and space using the landmarks of process and pattern, shape and color.
Suppose
What started out more vehemently as a piece called “Searing,” that was going to focus on the effects of hot pressure ironing, cathartically cooled through the sewing process into the mindset of “Repose.” However, by turning its tranquil state of tradition with two simple folds and a few letter changes, what was supposed to be became something else.
Volitant
made from this old quilt piece, AChE, that didn’t quite hold it’s shape. Requilted, redirected, reshaped, and renamed, according to it’s structure. Plus a couple of the original patchwork placement process photo shots, and sewing on the new quilted backing.
Soundproof Forest
An overstuffed quilted landscape shrouded in a silver soundproof fog grows from the horizon and spills out of the container. A drawer can be dug out like a hunk of shoveled dirt that buried the unknown. The concept germinates from George Berkeley’s, “if a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” and grows into, “if a person could do something that no one would ever know about, what would that person do?” This can be taken existentially or psycho/socially, meaning, the value of life as quantified by observation, or behavior as based on reaction to ethics and social mores. Absolved from all cause and effect, can a total freedom of action be obtained? If so, what would you do?
Remains
A quilt outgrew itself and crawled out leaving just this exoskeleton hanging on the wall, and what is left is what remains.
I Dream of Sleep
slight skew of pattern, slight paradox of reality
