2017

蔥油餅 green onion pancake

materials: muslin, thread, cotton batting, synthetic dyes

70 x 50 x 5 inches, dimensions variable

installation on the jordan shnitzer museum of art in eugene, or

quote taken from jsma.uoregon.edu: 
"Designed by Ellis F. Lawrence, UO dean of the School of Architecture & Allied Arts (1914-1946), the museum was built to house the Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art—more than 3,000 objects given to the University by Gertrude Bass Warner in 1921 as a memorial to her late husband. The original collection primarily represented the cultures of China and Japan. Also included were works from Korea, Mongolia, Cambodia and Russia, as well as American and British pieces influenced by Asian art and culture."

i throw a green onion pancake onto a legacy of colonialism and questionable acquiring and white gatekeeping of “cultural objects”.