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The Deer Garden, #woodcut completed during my Women’s Studio Workshop residency.

The woodblock will be embedded in a custom-built TV tray table to resemble inlaid jade, in an exploration of what it means to steward my mother’s stories and home.

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Woodcut printed in a fountain roll of light to dark jade green, designed to resemble hand-carved jade. The imagery features a Clouded Leopard and Formosan Sika Deer in a cyclical chase against a wood-like pattern. - The Deer Garden contends with the changing landscape surrounding my mother’s home in rural Kansas, as suburbanization encroaches. Since 2024, my spouse and I have taken turns visiting my mother to help her with house repairs and to assert our presence to overly inquisitive real estate developers and new neighbors. In my mother’s home, we have meals sitting across from each other at a TV tray table in her kitchen. In this modest, intimate setting, my mother steps into one of her most profound roles as our family’s knowledge keeper. Her stories—historical, allegorical, almost mythic, and sometimes prophetic—come alive. The Deer Garden features a Formosan Sika Deer and Clouded Leopard in a continuous, cyclical chase. As I pester my mother on specifics, I find myself negotiating what it means to be a good historian, researcher, and steward. The “mountain lions” outside her childhood bedroom in Taiwan turn out to be feral cats. The deer outside her windows in Kansas become stand-ins for celestial gods. My prints reflect this cyclical tension, as I set up strict matrices for works that are inherently about the immeasurable qualities of stories that can never—perhaps should never—be rendered quite perfectly. The final woodcut is designed to resemble a piece of hand-carved jade, which will be inlaid on the surface of a TV tray table. Shout-out to Woody at WSW for taking my sketches and crafting such a gorgeous table to hold this work. 💚 The inimitable Woody, staff member at Women’s Studio Workshop, who brought my design drawings by building this custom TV tray table to hold my woodblock for The Deer Garden. Here Woody is sanding down the table for final test fitting to inlay the woodblock on the tabletop.
June 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Delighted to be in the exhibition "Go West" at Dairy Arts Center showcasing #AsianAmericanArtists whose creative stories reflect the intersection of cultural heritage, innovation, and the pursuit of new beginnings in the American West.

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Promotional poster for the group exhibition for Go West, featuring 12 Asian American artists, opening May 16. The poster's show title text is in large block letters that show portions of different artists' work against a deep violet background. Artists: Agnes Ma, Bala Thiagarajan, Christine Nguyen, Erin Hyunhee Kang, Jenie Gao, Joon Tajadod, Laila Vaziralli, Margaret Kasahara, Maki Teshima, Mattie Hanson, Sammy Seung-min Lee, Taiko Chandler Guest Jurors: Gallerist, Rajiv Menon, and Art Advisor, Roseline Michael Neveling
May 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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📣 Calling all AAPI artists!

May is #AAPI Month—and we’re celebrating artists across the community on #Showcase.

If that’s you (or someone you know), tag us or drop a link to your work below 👇

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April 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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July 30, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Thank you to @na.omi.j.shintani for a deeply moving tour of her curatorial gem, Refuge 2: Place, Creation, Culture. Showing through January 4, Redwood City Center for Creativity (@centerforcreativitysmc).
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December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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ryuarabul.bsky.social RYU Arabul @ryuarabul.bsky.social · Feb 11
Hey folks in the DC area- please join me as I celebrate and bear witness to the stories of my Korean American immigrant community- of individuals adopted into American families.
February 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM