Asian Diasporic Zodiac: Water Dragon, Archival Print Size:8″×10″ " from the series

" from the series

It is the social glue between people

Somerset White Velvet Paper (archival)

their homeland of several centuries and a landscape so very different from where they landed in the United States

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Asian Diasporic Zodiac: Water Dragon, Archival Print Size:8″×10″ " from the seriesThe Asian Diasporic Zodiac explores hybrid identities, inspired by conversations with my Taiwanese mother. I reimagined the Zodiac animals as if they were informed by diaspora and landscapes of Turtle Island North America. The Water Dragon embodies Yang water, active and dynamic, like rising oceans and floods reclaiming land. Water is often regarded as the strongest element because nothing can destroy itin response to outside pressures water simply