ABOUT

My practice of drawing, zinemaking, painting, creative writing, printmaking, and poetry examines the prevailing ideas of  ‘Asian culture’ in America and how Orientalism and pressures towards assimilation and Americanization flatten[s]/commodifies perceptions of East Asia. I utilize the visual language of signage, advertisement, and commercial objects by depicting figures using oil pastels, sumi-e ink, acrylic paint on top of ‘Asian inspired’ tapestries. I want to blend the traditions of ‘American portraiture’ with symbols of Orientalism to destabilize how we think of what is ‘fine art’ versus what is viewed as cheap, disposable, and ‘foreign. I think about assimilation, and what it means to make a house a home.