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surreal estate
I am Sky, in Cynthia Tom’s Surreal Estate exhibit for PLACE/DISPLACED, SOMArts Cultural Ctr, SF, CA, Cur. Melorra Green 2014
This was the first time I collaborated with another artist. I love Cynthia’s surreal art and felt my poetry was like words floating in the clouds of her landscapes. It gave me a vision of doing more public art and sharing my poetry in non-traditional ways out of journals and books and into the space we inhabit in life. Imagine if poetry painted the walls and floors of our public buildings and streets more often?
stories to tell
Another Name for Opportunity, in Cynthia Tom’s Stories to Tell, Gallery Route 1, Pt Reyes, CA 2016
In this exhibit, Cynthia channeled the story of her grandmother who like many Chinese and other immigrants from Asia were detained and harshly interrogated for months on end at Angel Island Immigration Station before being allowed to enter San Francisco. Isolated and lonely, detainees carved over 500 poems and inscriptions on the walls of the barracks to share their pain and frustration. In Another Name for Opportunity, I write with pencil on an unpainted wall a story of what my family might have written had they been detained there.
hungry ghost
I am not Dante, in Hungry Ghost, Yearning for Fulfillment exhibit for AAWA, Thoreau Ctr for Sustainability, SF, CA, Cur. Lisa Chiu 2011
This was my first public art exhibit (group show). It meant the world to me to be seen as an artist for my work. It was also the first time I was experimenting with the concepts of the 5 elements in Chinese medicine and how these five elements could intersect with my poetry and thoughts about healing. Taoism, the balance of Yin and Yang and the harmony between the five elements has become pivotal to me as a healer and an artist.
