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Mother Tongue, 2019
Ink on rice paper
17’’ x 57’’
Ink on rice paper
17’’ x 57’’
Within immigrant families there can be a disconnect from the mother tongue.
We take baby steps trying to speak/write (circles)
forming a broken identity (cut strips)
and we eventually becoming good enough (好)
and celebrate all people (人) in these varying stages.