about

Through a shapeshifting convergence of ancestral myth, memory, and everyday longings, my work builds personal mythologies inhabited by past, present, and future ghosts. As a Chinese transnational adoptee, I draw on the entanglement of personal experience, state policy, Chinese and American mythologies, diasporic memory, and intergenerational knowledge to construct imagery that hovers between the remembered and the imagined. These mythologies take shape as unstable constellations—fragments continually revised, reorganized, and brought into new relation.
In the studio, I use experimental acts of observation and recall to explore how these fragments might gather in different formations, allowing perception, memory, and dream to overlap. I am interested in the unexpected relationships that emerge through seeing, remembering, making, and remaking. Painting remains at the center of my practice, but I increasingly understand the works themselves as talismans: objects capable of holding multiple places, times, meanings, and possible selves in relation. I am interested in how both process and object might function as guides, guardians, or protectors—offering orientation without resolving the uncertainty from which they emerge.