Stories to Tell:
A surrealist and abstract exploration into the implications of Chinese Immigration 1910-1940 and the internment and interrogation of Chinese women at Angel Island
in San Francisco Bay.
This exhibition is continually evoving and being added to.
For Sale *dress not included.
acrylic on wood, 16" x 11"
My maternal grandmother was sold to my grandfather and on her wedding day..she served drinks to his friends.
Immigration 1923
acylic on canvas, 20"x24"
Surreal view of Chinese women immigrants entering the San Francisco Bay.
Gift for the Grandmother
30"x24" acrylic on canvas
My maternal grandmother was sold to my grandfather and brought to the U.S. from China. After their seventh child was born, my grandfather died leaving her penniless. San Francisco was still a very racist place in the 30's.
She spoke no english and had to raise these children alone in Chinatown. They struggled to survive.
If I could go back and rewrite some of her past, I thought, perhaps,
if she had a business,she might have had an easier life.
This is my gift to her, wherever she is now.
Enculturation
48"X24" acrylic on canvas
An homage to those immigrant women who
struggled with westernization as a means of survival
