Making Home

This body of work started as an examination of my Taiwanese-American identity through the symbolism of home. I started by embroidering various HGTV "Dream Home" floor plans, letting each stitch manifest an obsessive preoccupation with the embodiment of the American dream through home ownership. I then layered these embroidered works with paper cut Chinese lattice designs from traditional windowpane patterns, interested in the dialogue between the two layers of each piece, and the idea of my Taiwanese heritage framing (and setting the stage) for my life here in the states. The ongoing question of my heart, and in these works, has been, “Where is home, and where do I belong?”