What’s Left

The following text and image documents present a collaboration between the artist and a group of her high school students who each immigrated to the United States as children.The artist interviewed each student and asked, “What is the most memorable object that you left behind when coming to the United States?”

In the interviews, each student describes not only his/her object, but also the history and circumstance that surrounds it. The artist then used the descriptions within her students’ stories to depict these objects left behind as multicolor woodblock prints. The resulting artist book presents each image accompanied by supporting information: a phrase quoted from the student, their city and country of origin, and a brief description of the object.

In the book, a foreword written by the artist precedes the images. Please read that document HERE.

project title: What’s Left
dimensions (closed): 7.5 X 7.5 X 1 inches
media: letterpress with woodblock and polymer plates on Mohawk Superfine paper
pages: 34
edition size: 60
year completed: 2018

What’s Left: Outside View

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