Creative Heights Grant • Portland Chinatown Museum

Creative Heights Grant

I’ve been selected for an 8-week Artist Residency at the Portland Chinatown Museum along with Portland artists Alex Chiu and Shu-Ju Wang. I’d like to thank Horatio Law, PCM, and Oregon Community Foundation for this incredible opportunity.

I feel deep gratitude and luck to be given permission to have full access to artifacts, historical documents, docents, specific community members, businesses, and historians for this residency. I can’t wait to see what transpires and create an audio/visual installation, write new poems, and asemic calligraphy–all in response to artifacts and history.

My excitement for this project begins with this question in mind: If you give inanimate objects a tongue and a mouth to speak from, what would they say? There will be a series of talks prior to the exhibition in 2022, Summertime.—I’ll be in Portland every other week ( November – January) so if any of my Portland pals want to swing by to see my process, say hello, or make plans to hang out. I’d love it. I’m fully vaccinated.

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Photo: My mother’s dress for an video installation.Listening to Breather by Chapterhouse – https://youtu.be/HG4-Tantvhc