GALLERY
Calendar Girls: graphic work on paper (2007 - Present)
My first impression of Hong Kong was its seductive advertising that permeates every aspect of life there. Advertising is the city's primary artform.
One afternoon I saw "Your Ad Here" painted in huge letters over several stories of a building in Central HK. That was the inspiration of the Calendar Girls, and here I reference the irresistable Shanghai posters from the 1920's-40s. The east/western cultural tensions of that era take on a different dimension today in Hong Kong and elsewhere, but beneath the sophistication of our modern microfiber clothing, women around the world still grapple with the same concerns as our grandmothers.
Waterbased media on handmade papers (coconut fibers/mulberry), from A4-A2 size
Her skin was whiter...
I've got the checkbook
I've got the checkbook
Made to measure
Officebound
She forgot her own
Sugar and spice
Will work for freedom
