To Grieve (Self-Portrait)
2025
60” H x 36” W x 27” D
Tea, foam, wood, glue, ceramic, air dry clay, spray paint, plaster, and found objects.
I use a silk dress, ceramics and tea as a point of entry to talk about my cultural hybridity as a result of the trade history between China and the West. In making the work, I realized I was treating my identity as something fixed, static, and dead. In turning my body into objects, I began to think about the idea of permanence and the chaotic bodily experience of searching for something that is not lost or never exists before.