Recent Thoughts

This work (poster) is from a set of posters that I have been making called, Recent Thoughts. This poster is two-sided, the front with cyanotype print of my I-20 and passport with a monoprint of my handprint. The back is a list of recent anti-asian hate crimes that have happened in the United States (from January to March, 2021) with a silkscreen print of Chinese dragon in the middle. The process of making this set of posters is painful as they involve personal emotions. Recently I don't think much of the purpose of making art, I just make things that are important for me. And one of the questions I have been thinking often while making this set of posters is: are things only matter when they become personal? 

Xiao Ma (Smile), any/all pronouns. Is a 4th term sophomore studying literature and visual art