Oriental in America
This is part of a series of works interrogating my identity as a trans-racial Chinese American (meaning my adoptive family is white). Through using abandoned Kodachrome slides my grandfather took in the 1960's and Orientalist dolls from antique stores, I hope to illuminate the tension of American Identity. Or specifically, long tradition of conflation with whiteness by having unassimilated, literally objectified figures of bodies like mine imposed upon the mid-century American West. A landscape enshrined by Manifest Destiny and America's colonial project where non-white bodies do not belong in popular culture despite their indigence and/ or role as laborers opening up the west for white settlers.
Photography
8 x 19
£50.00
No. pieces
2
Medium
Digital Photography and Kodachrome Slide
