2024—
I am a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of printmaking, film, textile and independent publishing. I now live in London, but my base is yet to find. I come from Yunnan, the Southwest of China, and later stayed in Chicago—a cold wind. From there, I moved to Shan State in Burma—the borderland between my wife’s hometown, Yangon, and mine.
It was through constant departures and returns, that disjunction and anxiety are gained. And my Nepantla is realized—a Nahuatl word from South America implying “middle”. Gloria E. Anzaldua adopted this term to lodge those who mediate in the liminal realms of interwoven realities.
Thus, I settled in the Nepantla of the unsettled, looking for stability in mediums that hold a repetitive nature. Sometimes I lay down film strips like textiles to expose onto printing plates; Other times, I blow up film frames to print on yarns and weave them into textiles. I also animate printed motifs into moving images, or print film frames directly onto film to make new films.
Through the continual doing/undoing of threads and lines, rolling and developing of ink and eyes, the myth of my Nepantla—a borderland has been realized. They are mumblings in dreams, decipherable only by the practice of art.