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Artist Statement

I am a sculptor, designer, and socially engaged artist deconstructing the interconnections between power, economics, labor, and race. I seek to illuminate these systems’ foundational interplay with psychological schemas, emotions and interpersonal relationships. I want to contribute to building collective self-compassion and awareness by reframing experiences and conditions within historical, political, financial, and colonial contexts. I interrogate my perspective, circumstances and heritage—defined by multi-generational struggle and isolation incurred from ambitions to survive and strive within gas-lighting white supremacist patriarchal capitalism—in relation to systemic patterns, myths and power. As an Asian-American contending with inherited, conflicting duties and narratives of care-giving and achievement, I am especially interested in the conscious and unconscious positions and conditions of those whose lineages are entangled with diaspora, assimilation and imperialism.