Invisible Landscape
2022
screen printed oyster sauce, sweet bean paste, black bean paste, and soy glaze on paper and reclaimed shipping boxes.
Stockton 23” x 28"x 7.5"
Grant 23"x 28" x5"
Through my interest in city landscapes and how street names reflect neighborhoods' histories and communities' identities, I hope to bring awareness to gentrification and inequality affecting underrepresented communities. In this body of work, I have adapted bilingual street signs from San Francisco's Chinatown, which represent a formal recognition of the Asian-American community's place in San Francisco's history and the neighborhood's cultural identity.
This unique piece of infrastructure has begun to slowly disappear in the city due to new economic redevelopment and gentrification. I screen printed street signs with Chinese cooking sauces to commemorate the neighborhood's cultural identity while reversing their English street names. To echo these scenes of displacement.
