A Thread, But Not At All Threatening (2022)
Outdoor installation with cyanotype-printed muslin, hand-dyed wool yarn, shepherd’s hooks, metal rod.
Paraphrasing a woman responding to footage of her mother being shoved to the ground in a random act of anti-Asian violence — her body just crumbled like a feather. A Thread was made in response to the pain of physical violence and of racism. I have been thinking about Ann Anlin Cheng’s writings about the yellow woman seemingly always being regarded and identified through the ornamental and the sartorial. I have also been wondering why Asian people are simultaneously disease-bearing threats, yet so unthreatening that we are the targets of so much senseless violence.
This version was installed in the garden at the Residency Project in Pasadena, California.
