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Dinnertime
2017, Cast paper using discarded paper, size varies, * won West Collection LIFTS Grant and award
Dinnertime began with my question: “Our relationship to the materiality of culture”. I visually preserved or captured the presence of the empty space that the material/objects contain by casting each of the tableware items such as china, glasses, and silverware with recycled paper pulp from the wrapping paper used to protect that tableware during my interstate move in 2017. Then, I placed them on an invisible table around which the audience stands. Through the contradiction between the elegant form of dinnerware and the imperfect shape of each object made of delicate yet rough paper, with their shadows on the floor, I want to question the fragility and impermanence of comfort as well as offering a glimpse of the absence of time and self.