Yellow-Bellied Lovers (left)

I have always had a complicated relationship with the color of my skin, always too dark to be mistaken as white in America and too dark to be beautiful in China. The Peking opera mask is a symbol of the refined and sparkling vision of ideal Chinese beauty, but to place it on a body not unlike mine is jarring. This relationship between asian female; the visage of submission, and the presence of the white male; the distillation of power creates a dichotomy that I live my life within. I know I crave the whiteness and I know I am ashamed. 

Yellow-Bellied Lovers (center)

Yellow-Bellied Lovers (right)

Nylon Clothesline

This piece depicts the ways in which lower classes sought to emulate expensive yet useless items through the usage of plastic reproductions. These items such as costume jewelry, the stuffing from Valentine's bears, and shape wear garments fill the nylon pantyhose in the dilapidated forms of the women who bear them.