This is my grandmother on my mother’s side. She was the bedrock to my mother’s family. She supported a family of 7 as a seamstress and with dividends from her father’s company when her husband who was a writer did not earn enough money. This is the only photo I…
This also focuses on my father’s side of the family. On the right hand is an image of him, his eldest sister, and his aunt (behind his sister). The other two figures were the neighbors. My father’s father went back to China to find a wife and brought her to Indonesia. She…
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 these.
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…
