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HOME

Home is an installation consisting of a cyanotype animation projected onto a piece of half transparent fabric, which is silkscreened with white images, all of which explores the feeling of people relocating and immigrating.

The subject matter is explored using animation, cyanotype, digital editing, silkscreen and projection.

HOME- Documentary
Pillow Talk—Oral History of Immigrants

Pillows, mp3s, speakers, interviewed voice audio

 

Exhibited in Pratt DDA Gallery on March 7-11, 2016

 

Pillow Talk is an installation of seven pillows installed on the wall. Each pillow is telling a story. Inside of it, there is an immigrant, first or second generation, talking about his/her experience of relocation and thoughts about home.

After Bruce Nauman

Repeating as a basic technique especially learning a language. The pain of it for me as a pain of always being good. Correcting pronunciation and repeating is boring but a must. When I saw Bruce Nauman’s piece Good boy, bad boy (1985) I suddenly thought what happened if we were not told to be good? So I recreated the piece. I also took the sound wave from my voice, using vinyl cutter to draw the wave on rice paper. Combining layers of images and glued them together, the image itself could speak for itself.

 

Video: HERE

Sky River- A site specific installation

An site specific installation covering a glass wall at Pratt.

Meeting it in different times, there is a different expression.

The content came from the natural of a signifier then transfer to a objective signified imagery.

This pattern of water is one of the twelve patterns in Water Album by Ma Yuan.

Recreated this particular one named Yellow River Breaches,I also carries my though of homeland water which is transferred by an icon from Song Dynasty to present.

Where is home

This project explores the feeling of leaving and relocating one’s home. When I relocated to New York, I experienced longings,anxieties and fears, and when I went back to my previous home, I found home was not the same one that I had belonged to.

 

The subject matter is explored using cyanotype, digital editing, plotter printing and acrylic on canvas.

Commuting​

I found commuting between languages just like commuting between cities and cultures. I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to New York City twice a week from Long Island so that I can spend my weekend at home. I shoot these pictures randomly at each station the train stops. I also invited a friend who was commuting between Shanghai and Hangzhou in China.
She shoots pictures from Shanghai Station to Hangzhou, while I shoot pictures from New York city to Ronkonkoma. This work, we worked together but separately, in summarizing the city as a place where uncanny similarities happen around the world.

Epitome of Domestic Lives

This work is an epitome of stories from different people. When I draw a sketch, I visited people who live in New York. Listened to their stories, broke them apart, I rebuilt them with my own impressions and understandings.

 

Focused on cultural variations and blending analogue material into the digital process, I used drawings, silk, and digital ink jet printers, I intended to discover how to transfer traditional art into more contemporary approach by using digital mediums.

Documented voice video
- immigrants in NY

Three interviewees talking about their thoughts about home.

Creating unique syncs, approaching to various documentary techniques,

I did video footage to match audio
sound and video in Premiere Pro. Recorded by iPhone. 

Ups and Downs

In the work, men and women are fallingvery slowly from the original place they came from, as if they are peeling off of it.

 

The subject matter is explored using MAYA, digital editing and plotter printing to create a feeling that is simultaneously peaceful and distressing.

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