Essays
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The Lonesome (Asian) West
23 Aug 2020Li Du, “Red Cone Off Roading”, 2007 If we took the fraught and misguided approach of trying to categorize Asian American experience by geography, much in the way we do with the flora and fauna of this vast country, I would not be a common varietal. In college, I met…
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Fantasies of Genocide
18 May 2020This painting, titled the unparalleled invasion, took five months to complete and has been the structuring principle in my working life for the first half of 2020. Recently I heard the great Vincent Desiderio describe painting as truly successful only when the artist’s aspiration is about to collapse on itself,…