From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings

In narrative paintings, figures from historic Orientalist Paintings are recast from their western origins. Roughly painted as silhouettes in the palest yellow and other hues, they are given agency, weaponized and engage in acts of self-love, bound together with female figures painted from family photos.Dwelling amidst abbreviated landscapes, the figures reside in a memory, or in passing and passage of a geographical place. Hand-painted silk and oil gestures adorn the forms with historic designs, referring to fabric long treasured by family, and to textiles that depicted narratives of imperialism, myth, and spirituality. Cradled between the generations, anamorphic bodies appear in flux, born into a kind of Asian futurism.

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