Mixed Media Digital Photo Collage
11" x 17"
2018
4/20 --- Editioned Print

Statement about the work ------- "I am inspired by the quotidian, and my ongoing project has been an East Asian/Asian American hybrid soap opera video installation series called “KOKO’s Love,” where I challenge the “model minority” myth to reveal the guise of superficial “perfection” of being a 1.5 generation Japanese American woman—the “.5” feeling of not belonging to either the first generation or the second. Loosely autobiographical, I felt it was important to write, produce, direct, and play every character as a performative process. Here are the main characters from my dysfunctional auto-fictional family displaying their inner thoughts/trauma/feelings on painfully saccharine purple candy conversation hearts."