My practice explores how racial and gender identity undergo transformation through the influence of time and societal expectations. This exploration deeply intertwines with my experience as a first-generation Taiwanese American, female artist, and former cancer researcher.

Utilizing a visual language of self-representation, stiffened chiffon, and plaster, my work documents the tension between the fragile humanity of the breathing self and the rigid structures of an unyielding mask of compliance. I use fabric as a metaphor for the intricate social fabric and physical structures that attempt to bind us. Between the shifting folds, the viewer is invited to witness the quiet resilience of a self that refuses to be fully contained.

Through the tactile transformation of textiles alongside the journalistic quality of portraits and photography, my practice captures the vulnerable journey of unlearning inherited scripts. By shifting our understanding of identity from a rigid expectation into a fluid space, my art maps how we continually challenge, reconstruct, and reclaim who we are, throughout different stages of life.

我的創作探索種族與性別身分如何受到時間與社會期待的影響而產生轉變。這份探索與我作為第一代台裔美國人、女性藝術家以及前癌症研究員的生命經驗深度交織。

透過自我呈現、硬化雪紡砂（stiffened chiffon）與石膏的視覺語言，我的作品記錄了「呼吸著的脆弱人性自我」與「順從的堅硬面具」兩者之間的張力。我以布料作為隱喻，對照試圖束縛我們的複雜社會織網（social fabric）與實體結構。在游移的摺痕之間，觀者被邀請去見證一個拒絕被完全困住的自我，所展現出的沉靜韌性。

藉由紡織品的觸感轉化，以及肖像與攝影中帶有的紀實質感，我的創作捕捉了卸載（unlearning）繼承規範的脆弱歷程。透過將我們對身分的理解從僵化的期待轉化為流動的空間，我的藝術描繪出我們如何在生命的精采階段中，持續挑戰、重構並重新尋回自我。

The silent distortion occurs when the individual becomes the inadvertent architect of their own constraint. Assimilation: the quiet, daily violence of sculpting one’s own fluidity to satisfy normative pressures. The subject usually intertwines with the immigrant experience in the USA, the internal landscape of the female identity, and the radical reclamation of existential self-mastery in the modern era.

Through a visual language of self-representation, stiffened chiffon, and plaster, these works document the tension between the fragile humanity of the breathing self and the rigid structures of an unyielding mask of compliance. Between the shifting folds, the viewer is invited to witness the quiet resilience of a self that refuses to be fully contained.

我的創作關注於一種無聲的扭曲: 當個體不自覺地成為自身束縛的建築師時，所產生的內在異變。對我而言，同化（Assimilation）並非僅是文化適應，而是一種寂靜的、日常的暴力；是為了滿足規範壓力，而不斷修剪、塑形自我流動本質的過程 。這份作品集深深刻畫了美國移民經驗、女性身份的內在景觀，以及在現代社會中對存在自主權的激進奪還 。