Melting Pot: Casting and Recasting a Caribbean Chinese Body
In Melting Pot: Casting a Caribbean Chinese Body, I use the conceptual framework of creolization to interrogate the representation of becoming and being Trinidadian-Chinese-Hakka. This is a fluid identity that inhabits and flows within the hyphens between cultures, through the construction of my memories, fantasy, narrative and myth of family dinners, childhood memories behind the shop counter and the voices of my ancestors. As an artist, I explore these ideas of translation and transculturation through my art practice of bronze casting, mould-making, 3D printing. Melting Pot highlights the autobiographical qualities of wax, resin and bronze in expressing the entanglement of the Chinese body within the Caribbean.
This body of work was made within the scope of a MFA thesis project. To read the whole thesis dissertation, please follow this link: http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/2970/
Sacred Bodies, bronze, thermoplastic, cloth, fruits and snacks, 2020
Remember Me, Bronze, 2020
