Installation, Norman Brown Gallery (740 sq.ft)
Video, projector, porcelain, pine wood, zip ties, vinyl tape, beads, stainless steel mash metal screen, steel round rod, rubber and steel swivel plate caster wheels
My installation is an excavation of both my memory and experience of cultural and social boundaries which I use to explore notions of “home” and “homeland”. I explore the spaces between imagination and reality, feminine and masculine, East and West and inside and outside. I am interested in the displacement of time and the moment in which materials capture the essence of preserving time. The sculpture tries to provide a dynamic interaction that acts as a testimony of transformation for the viewer and the material, the clay.
This video represents how I make work about different ways of communication beyond the language. The memory of sound, body language, space and time of conversation become tools for my expression and emotion. In addition, moving and packing are connected to my personal narrative and my experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity and cultural assimilation become part of American identity.