Building towards a better future through collective action is what I hope to be my legacy, I highlight several communities that I am in: The Lamentors, who are part of the San Francisco Extinction Rebellion contingent warn of the climate disasters that are occurring with greater frequency and magnitude. Social…
1967 was two years after a coup d’état involving Indonesia’s President Sukarno being forced into exile, the mass killing of at least 500,000 to as many as 3 million people as suspected Communist sympathizers, including many Chinese-Indonesians, who were blamed for the coup d’état, and General Suharto seizing power, and…
Stories of Water, Stories in Water is an art exhibition offering love letters in a multitude of media to the bodies of water that permeate our planet, and ourselves. This show features 8 artists working in painting, etching, video, and sculpture, as well as a collaborative collection of memories with…
the images are how i track my works in progress. It is the evolution of my work. This is the artist statement I turned in for Voices of Freedom exhibit: Indonesia, my birthplace, is a land colonized by the Dutch for 350+ years. The Chinese people have lived in the…
The butohBuddies are Kiyono Kishi, Nina Moore, Lipton Mah, Ruth Ichinaga, and me. We are buddies. We practice and perform butoh and movements that are maybe not pure butoh, but that are buddies with butoh. Our dance and movements or stillness, and all aspects of our production are on our…
I chose to profile only 3 species of plants and 1 species of butterfly because I ran out of time. The three plants are: Willow, Fescue (bunchgrass), and Dutchman’s pipevine. The butterfly is pipevine swallowtail. None of these look exactly like the species I intended to portray, but that’s ok…
Home202433″ x 23.5″FabricThis quilt is about Point Molate being not just another place, another location but also home. It is my hope that when we reframe a space as a home, as a place of longing and belonging, that we treat it with love and respect, and not merely exploit…
I showed my quilt, The Residents, about some of the residents of Point Molate to some of the Point Molate residents. I hope they approve. I’m honored to say that my first quilt will be part of the exhibit, Point Molate, thanks to ARTSCCC (Arts Contra Costa County) and Richmond…
I finally finished my portrait of Nina which started out as a bad left handed drawing on a zoom call with the butohBuddies group in 2020. Then I took the drawing and stitched it on repurposed fabric. Then I procrastinated let it incubate for a little longer so I can…
I’ve been a follower of Alice Fox, a UK based artist who works with nature. In her new book, Wild Textiles, she showed an example of a leaf quilt, which intrigued me. I wanted to try this out. On Nov 1, I collected fallen poplar leaves at my workplace. They…