Sculpture
Adirondack Sack ( In Process)
A visualization of an in-process weave of an Adirondack sack, a carrier for storing tea leaves and other harvested goods. This basket bag is a product that represents my father's village of Shouning County, Fujian, a hub for agriculture and... More
Sculpture
Basket Blighted
Creating a dialogue recognizing the erosion of inter-generational knowledge through the documentation baskets blighted displayed the disappearance and retrieval of a possible heirloom. Using silicone and incense as a medium not only conveyed a... More
Sculpture
Nine Fishes
A visual response on my great-grandfather Ho Chat Yuen's observational work of a Koi pond. The eerie, opaque water and the little school of fish drifting around alluded me to create a conversation on how we romanticize nature and escape from... More
Sculpture
The Stag & The Pool
White Deer Under Autumn Leaves is one of Ho Chat Yuen's painting that prompt me towards a scene of the fable by Aesop, the stag and the pool. The scene in the fable where the deer looking at its own reflection in a pond compared to the deer wading... More
Installation
To Retrieve A Possible Heirloom
To retrieve a possible heirloom investigates the familial inter-generational loss of knowledge, the process of retrieving the loss and creating the heirloom. Starting with the basket, a skill slowly dwindling away in my father’s village of... More
Work by
Kristi Chen
Sculpture/Installation
“To Retrieve A Possible Heirloom I feel is a start rather than an end to my journey discovering archives about my family and the world around us. I've learned that our own personal histories and...” [More]