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  • 2011-2014
    • Where Two Worlds Meet / Act of God
    • Photo Binary
    • Line Study
    • Japan
    • Cuba
    • Video Arts
  • 2015-Ongoing
    • Sungazing: Print
    • Sungazing: Installation
    • Infertile American Dream
    • Afterimage Requiem
    • Ravaged Flower of the Future
    • Only What We Can Carry
    • Ash Lexicon-Silverplate
    • Thirst
    • Hiroshima 08/06/2015 8:15am
    • Luminescent Shadows
    • On-going/WIP projects
  • Artist
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Press/Review
    • Upcoming Exhibition
  • Blog
 Civilian Exclusion Order No.108 : Family Photo

Only What We Can Carry

2017-2018

Media: Chromogenic color print made by direct sunlight, Executive Order 9066 Poster, Everyday Objects

Location: Hillyer Art Space(AI&A at Hillyer) in DC. Exhibiting with Infertile American Dream

 

Only What We Can Carry is a series of 80+ Contact C-Prints of Japanese Internment Camp (Civilian Exclusion Orders) posters exposed with various everyday objects. These everyday objects represent what I would bring with me if I had one day to gather my belongings. This poster became a symbol of bigotry and paranoia towards a specific group of people, and it echoes in these times where these same prejudices have reemerged for another group of people. Denial and misjudgment lead by blinded authority is a phenomenon close to what we have been witnessing in recent political climates.

 

In the past, it may once have been a set of treasured letters brought to the camp during WWll. In these times, it could be a photo-filled cellphone or a laptop. But the suffocating decision of choosing between items of meaning and use to carry with you, or leave behind, must be the same. These objects, and these reaching gestures are all exposed with the poster, radiating through the C-prints like X-rays. They are juxtaposed in together as a warning, a warning that bridges the mistakes of the past with our time in the present.

Art Review on the Washing Post (Physical copy/January 14th) on the solo exhibition at the Hillyer Art Space in DC

Only What We Can Carry

2017-2018

Media: Chromogenic color print made by direct sunlight, Executive Order 9066 Poster, Everyday Objects

Location: Hillyer Art Space(AI&A at Hillyer) in DC. Exhibiting with Infertile American Dream

 

Only What We Can Carry is a series of 80+ Contact C-Prints of Japanese Internment Camp (Civilian Exclusion Orders) posters exposed with various everyday objects. These everyday objects represent what I would bring with me if I had one day to gather my belongings. This poster became a symbol of bigotry and paranoia towards a specific group of people, and it echoes in these times where these same prejudices have reemerged for another group of people. Denial and misjudgment lead by blinded authority is a phenomenon close to what we have been witnessing in recent political climates.

 

In the past, it may once have been a set of treasured letters brought to the camp during WWll. In these times, it could be a photo-filled cellphone or a laptop. But the suffocating decision of choosing between items of meaning and use to carry with you, or leave behind, must be the same. These objects, and these reaching gestures are all exposed with the poster, radiating through the C-prints like X-rays. They are juxtaposed in together as a warning, a warning that bridges the mistakes of the past with our time in the present.

Art Review on the Washing Post (Physical copy/January 14th) on the solo exhibition at the Hillyer Art Space in DC

 Civilian Exclusion Order No.108 : Family Photo

Civilian Exclusion Order No.108 : Family Photo

 Civilian Exclusion Order No.11 : Paint Pallet and Paint Knife

Civilian Exclusion Order No.11 : Paint Pallet and Paint Knife

 Civilian Exclusion Order No.36 : Spice

Civilian Exclusion Order No.36 : Spice

 Civilian Exclusion Order No.42 : Pocket Knife

Civilian Exclusion Order No.42 : Pocket Knife

 Civilian Exclusion Order No.22 : Small Frying Pan

Civilian Exclusion Order No.22 : Small Frying Pan

 Civilian Exclusion Order No.25 : Cellphone and charger

Civilian Exclusion Order No.25 : Cellphone and charger

 Civilian Exclusion Order No.94 : Headphone

Civilian Exclusion Order No.94 : Headphone

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