Sculpture
Many of these pieces are from an ongoing series of multi-media works that present the oral histories that the artist has collected from the Chinese women in America and in China during the past several years. The narrative in the artwork reflects the effect of legislation, imprisonment, revolution, and culture on women and their families historically and today.
Golden Lilies
Golden Lilies are a metaphor for the bound foot. After the railroads were completed, the Chinese were burned out of their homes, murdered, and driven out of the United States with no protection under the rule of law.
Marilyn and Mao
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Around the world women, are synonymous with money and power. In most countries females are trafficked by land, sea, and air for sale to the highest bidder.
Twin Acts
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While the US enforced it's Chinese Exclusion Act, Canada had a twin act. A Chinese American citizen married to a Chinese Canadian citizen could not live together and families were kept apart.
One Child Policy
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China's One Child Policy has led to a shortage of women since a boy child was prized. In America, the US Chinese Exclusion Act of 1883-1943 (1965) led to large "bachelor societies" in US Chinatowns.
Hazel Ying Lee, WWII Jet Pilot
Ms.Lee was the first Chinese American pilot to fly for the US Army during WWII as a member of the Women's Army Service Pilots. She was trained as a fighter pilot but was denied a position because she was a woman. She applied in China since China was our ally during the war. There she was again denied for the same reason.
The Myth of The Glass Slipper
Myth of the Glass Slipper (a maquette first a public art proposal) maquette size is 9"h x 18"w x 14"d.