Studio at CAA in Hang Zhou, China 2019

These are in-progress works, an extension of the family archive project that I started in 2017.

For this project I plan to insert family archive images and objects of memories into the bricks that are collected from homes that are being torn down by the Chinese government for renovation. I want to take these bricks back to the original site and have it built into the new infrastructure, or, just let them exist in the space it once belonged to- to leave a trail and memorialize the homes that were once there.

I met my extended family in Guang Zhou this past November of 2019, my aunt told me that their old house is being torn down for renovation. I plan on going back to Guang Zhou and Toishan in the near future to pursue this project.

Initial material experiments/ studio in Hang Zhou