My Mother's Baggage:
Lucky Daughter

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

1942: Luggage From
Home To Camp

From the personal to the profound, Flo Oy Wong's renderings, rice sack installations and cultural memorabilia tell the poignant tales of our roots. My first encounters with her ouevre were graphite images on paper, little vignettes of Chinatown life in her family's restaurant. They captured my attention in the early 1990s. Today's little theatre in luggage serve as miniature performances, presenting nostalgic angst as residue of our histories. They are a silent call for justice and recognition.

Lenore Chinn
Artist and Curator

My Mother's Baggage: Paper Sister/Paper Aunt/Paper Wife 1998

My Mother's Baggage: Paper Sister/Paper Aunt/Paper Wife talks about my mother's altered identity as my father's sister when she entered the U. S. in 1933.

In November of 1933, 1998, 15" x 18" x11", mixed media -
antique suitcase, photos, text

In November detail

Page 3 suitcase, mixed media - antique
suitcase, photos, text

Page 6 suitcase, mixed media - antique
suitcase, photos, text