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Historic Characters and Famous Events (2000 - ) |
Artist
Statement I
once bought a saké cup at a second-hand store. I was intrigued
by the glass marble-like thing that sat at its bottom. I poured some water
in it when I got home. Somehow through the refraction of the marble and
the liquid, a tiny image of a tiny naked Asian woman appeared at the bottom
of the tiny cup. She was masturbating and she looked just like one of
my mom’s sisters. A
few years later, I used this saké cup as a part of a mixed-media
piece about booty. Not as in "shake your bootie" or "bootie-call",
but as in plunder and spoils -- spoils of colonial projects, spoils of
vacation packages. Through the tea I poured in the tiny cup, the tiny
naked woman appeared within the artwork as part of the booty. Unexpectedly,
during the second week of the one-month exhibition, she began to fade.
After the third week, when I came to refill the tea, she was completely
gone. Who was she? Where did she go? I become obsessed with her disappearance. I have looked for her in nuddie playing cards, online auctions, mail-order brides and porn websites,… In another second-hand store I found a 1894 ten-volume set of books titled, "Historic Characters and Famous Events". I know I will find her in here. |