In 2013 Curator Stacey Uradomo- Barre invited me to create an installation for the exhibition “Constructs” at Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Washington. A t that time, I was working full time as an RN in the Emergency Room. On my days off I was also helping to care for my mother, suffering from dementia. She was living in a nursing care home. The following journey is about realizing Life through Art, a delicate balance.
2013 Gathering elements for the installation
2014 My goal was to to re-create my Mother’s room in her nursing care facility, to scale in my in Palo Alto Studio. I planned to pack the finished artwork into my car and drive it to the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle.
2014 Notes and clippings from Mom’s handbag gathered during my weekly visits, mounted onto scrolls
2014 Installation construction: bed, wallpaper, banig, mirrors, photos, bamboo, twine
2015 Drawings on scrolls suspended by bamboo
2015 Shoe box-size maquette of museum installation
2015 Installing museum’s south wall space for Mom’s room to scale. Elements: bamboo, twine, bones, Philippine wood carvings, photographs, scrolled drawings
2015 Installing museum’s north wall space for Mom’s room to scale. Elements: bed frame, mahogany bedside stand, mirror, family photos, lamp, wallpaper & scroll drawings suspended by bamboo
Exhibition Postcard showing detail of completed Installation for "Constructs: Installations by Asian Pacific American Women Artists" Artists: Terry Acebo Davis, Yong Soon Min, Lynne Yamamoto, Kaili Chun, Tamiko & Midori Kono Curated by Stacey Uradomo-Barre at Wing Luke Museum Seattle, WA 2015-2016