I know people who see the exhibits might look at this post and think… oh she’s just an amateur and they’d be right! I don’t really care to be a professional artist, so I’m just going to be myself. I know I should have an actual website instead of a…
This is my second artist talk and the first one where I did not lose my shit. I cried throughout my first artist talk. It spurred me on to seek counseling, so I guess not all was lost. The following is the text, which I read straight from the paper,…
As promised, here is the performance art component to the piece. I performed only once for the opening reception. I sought out help froma professional dancer and teacher Carolé Acuña on the choreography of the piece. She is a versatile artist: comedian, actor, dancer (flamenco and modern and yes, she once…
May 14, 2016 finally arrived. It was time to reveal this piece titled Wibatika irenea to the public. A second component to my vision is a performance art that I insisted on doing no matter how bad of an idea I thought it was, which will be in another post. Since…
I forgot that I never posted this until a friend reminded me that I haven’t. I was ambivalent about the process. It was difficult and embarrassing. I almost backed out of the show because I was feeling very self conscious and self judgmental about my piece. I enjoyed the process immensely…
My father’s biological father was a gambler. He gambled away any resources he had that would have been useful to raise 6 kids. So, his wife (my father’s mother) left to go back to China and took half the kids. She left the youngest child, my father, and the oldest…
There are two images here. One is in the background. They are of 5 sisters: my mother and her sisters. Their father wanted boys very badly. He got his wife pregnant five times, all of which resulted in girls. Still he did not give up. He gave them all boys…
This is the first piece from my parents’ photo collection that I made. I found this group of forgotten images on my last visit to see my folks. It was all neatly wound in plastic that I don’t think anyone has opened since at least 1983 when we emigrated out of…
It has been so long since I posted here. I had been working on a new series of work, titled Excavation that is exhibited in a show, Liquid Stories, at Lindsay Dirkx Brown Art Gallery at San Ramon Community Center. The curator asked all of us to speak about 5…
This is the show in which my body cast and 5 dioramas are being exhibited. The show is at I-Hotel, Manilatown Center, 868 Kearney St., San Francisco Open Wednesday -Sunday 1-6 pm Special Events: Artist Talk: Tuesday, May 31 2016, 5:30-8:30 pm (talk starts at 6:30 pm) Closing Celebration: Thursday,…