Eye of the Rice

Baby Jack Rice Story

made in usa: Angel Island Shhh

Kindred Spirit

I Don't Know Where the Chinese Cook Lived

Kente Rice Women: Talking Our Connection

Experimental Rice Sacks

Gee Ling Oy

Paper Sister: Instructed to tell the Truth

Rice for my Ancestors

Rice Sacks for my Siblings

Through Women's Eyes:
From Beijing to Huairou

The various bodies of work - Eye of the Rice: Yu Mai Gee Fon, Baby Jack Rice Story, I Don't Know Where the Chinese Cook Lived, Kente Rice Women: Talking Our Connection, made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, Kindred Spirit and others - which make up the Asian Rice Sack Series, refer to individual and collective narratives about the Chinese diaspora in America.

Rice was part of daily fare when Flo Oy Wong was a child, working in the family restaurant on Webster Street. But it was also part of family history and family lore-it was, after all, sacks of rice that supported the family while her father was recovering from having been shot by a relative. Then years later at age forty, Wong saw the possibilities of rice sacks for art making. Now they are in many ways a primary medium for her, just as others might turn to paint or stone as a medium.

Flo Oy Wong has created an amazing body of work about family, history, culture, memory, commemoration and celebration in the medium of rice sacks, a medium that she has made her own so successfully.

Moira Roth
Trefethen Professor of Art History
Mills College