Letters, Gia Đình Ba

The watermark carries the trace of my father's handwriting from the letters we have exchanged over the years. Paper is an ever-changing impermanence, degrading over time as the stories carry on. I find this direct relationship to making paper as a way for me to connect with the past through the inherent knowledge that has been passed down through my hands.

Through this, I also carry the stories of my parents and the legacies of their culture and identity as a materiality. The paper becomes the material medium to carry this history forward.

Work exhibited in conjunction with Holding, Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled at Art at the Kent, Calais, Vermont.

Press: News Argus, 'Holding: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled': Celebrated annual Calais exhibit unlocks pieces of the past.