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Three-Sided Urn
Ink and Thread on Cotton with polyfil
15" x 12" x 12"
by Joan Wong
This piece features the eye of my late grandmother. Instead of ashes, this soft urn holds fabric scraps from previous projects that featured other family members representing how my grandmother’s death took with with her all the stories of the previous generations that I will never know.
Home, lineage, migration, and the search for a sense of belonging are featured heavily throughout my work as a textile artist. By studying portraits of family members, I make sense of my ancestors and grief that comes from the displacement of the only branch of a family that immigrated to the United States. The complicated nature of what home is, or who home is, where we come from, is explored by diving into family history, its faces, its language, and the experience of existing between worlds.
Three-Sided Urn
Ink and Thread on Cotton with polyfil
15" x 12" x 12"
by Joan Wong
This piece features the eye of my late grandmother. Instead of ashes, this soft urn holds fabric scraps from previous projects that featured other family members representing how my grandmother’s death took with with her all the stories of the previous generations that I will never know.
Home, lineage, migration, and the search for a sense of belonging are featured heavily throughout my work as a textile artist. By studying portraits of family members, I make sense of my ancestors and grief that comes from the displacement of the only branch of a family that immigrated to the United States. The complicated nature of what home is, or who home is, where we come from, is explored by diving into family history, its faces, its language, and the experience of existing between worlds.