As a visual artist and a printmaker, I am concerned with issues of cultural identity. I am especially interested in exploring the role that memory plays in the retelling of a collective past. Through the use of autobiography, family stories, photographs and oral histories, I create works on paper -- pages of 'history', which attempt to establish a sense of place and continuity for Asians in America.

Throughout the work, references to the screens, scrolls and objects found in traditional Asian art provide a codified connection to the past. Like the traditions and values passed down within the family, these objects represent the connection between 'there' and 'here'; between the life left behind and the endless possibilities of the life that lies before us.

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