Suitcase Series

My Mother's Baggage:
Lucky Daughter

My Mother's Baggage:
Paper Sister/Paper Aunt/
Paper Wife

1942: Luggage From
Home To Camp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Mother's Baggage: Lucky Daughter 1996

My Mother's Baggage: Lucky Daughter is a personal narrative about my birth as the sixth daughter of our family in Oakland, California's Chinatown.

 


Closed Suitcase, 1996, 14" x 21" x 7", mixed media - suitcase, tag, photo

 


Open Suitcase, 1996, 15" x 20" x 6", mixed media -
suitcase, photos, sequins, text

 


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  My Mother's Baggage: Lucky Daughter
1999 Celebrating American Family Life, U. S. State Department Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997 Art of the Americas: Identity Crisis, M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1996 A Case for Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA