Bitter Melon Rice Blues:
Elergy for America

District Six: A Memory

Rice for my Ancestors

Bitter Melon Rice Blues: Elegy for America 1992

Bitter Melon Rice Blues expresses the Chinese concept of Ching Ming, a springtime ritual to visit and clean the graves of the dead. The installation honors Vincent Chin and other Asian Americans who died as a result of anti-Asian violence.

Bitter Melon Rice Blues: Elegy for America, 1992, 14' x 12', mixed media - joss paper, chair, bench, rice sack, bitter melon, basket

Bench detail

Chair, basket detail