Collaborative mapping of ongoing dialogues and research companionships with Shuyi Cao.

The four sides capture fragments of conversations and our thinking on movements through time and space, south and north, mountain and sea, materiality and embodied knowing. Reflecting on orientation, displacement, borders through multiple interfaces of plant propagation, fermentation, and eating, we collectively weave Chinese diasporic positionalities with ecological thinking to process shared experiences and struggles.

Display during Shuyi Cao’s residency at Guangdong Times Museum 广东时代美术馆

𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙨? 𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙨! 𝙏𝘽𝘿 is an exhibition about the conceived piece and its incompleteness, showing labels as artwork.

𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘴 is the negative image of what I had been able to produce from the positionality of a designer and educator occupied with a full-time position in a North American private institution. These thinking come together through folding onto one and the other, in a world as a sea of infinite continuous folds. The form of the label disrupts the conventional flat, rectangle-shaped, hard, and intact exhibition label. In the folds of space, movement, and time are traces of these half-formed projects, abandoned, self-censored, in the negative space of existing as a Resident Alien while negotiating the narrative identity of a member of the polysemic Chinese diaspora.

:iidrr Gallery, New York, NY               

Based on the existing logo, I established the branding guidelines and expanded the graphical vocabulary for various visual communications for the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton Universiry, such as annual report, website, and newsletters.