Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 2018
Fabric, cotton, PVC leather, PVA, metal, wood, DC motor, and concert mix
Tin Flats, Los Angeles, 2018.
72” x 60” x 60”
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
This installation is a body of work that uses the playground as a subject to reflect on our subjective notions of value, boundaries, inclusiveness, and exclusivity.
I attempted to create an installation to reflect immigrant experiences in this piece. The piece enabled the audience to have a physical and emotional experience through engagement with the installation by fusing fragmented abstraction, bodily scale, and movements. A motor imitated dragging and lugging movements to create physical mark-making on the ground, leaving a visual trace of its labor. In this way, I was able to honor immigrants' resilience while also evoking the sensibility of their struggle to make a better life.
