A Full Life
The shape of my memory seems to transmute so fluidly over the course of time that I can never be sure whether what I remember is objective truth or subjective longing. Rooted in small scale gestures, aggregated over weeks into expansive drawings, my work begins with places I’ve traveled, a shallot for dinner or pouring over old family albums. Through a form of remembrance, I transform their actuality into a landscape of something else entirely. I draw in snatched moments of time, amalgamating hundreds of minute gestures into expansive vistas.
For 20×200, I have created a collage landscape depicting the many ways Asians have made America their home. The captured moments, taken from family albums, celebrate the diversity of Asians and the ways they find spaces to belong. A Full Life began as a full-size billboard in New York City as part of the “Asians Belong Here” exhibit sponsored by Save Art Space.
