PRODUCT DESIGN
National Public Gaydio
I worked with the head of brand licensing, Jane Scott, and the vendor, Raygun, to design NPR’s National Public Gaydio t-shirt and accompanying sticker.
PHOTO & WORDS
Object Permanence
“On Becoming” was a multidisciplinary group show organized by Proud Asian Women+ at Avenue 50 Studio in May of 2021. I wrote poems in response to photos taken of me by Grace Widyatmadja. This project explores themes of immigrant lineages and assimilation.
PAPER & PRINT
Cardboard collages
During the pandemic years of 2020 to 2021, I created a series of thematic cardboard collages that were mainly cut from pages of The New Yorker. All are available to print on request.
What does it mean when your body is in flux between genders? How do you move between the buble of safety of what has been defined and the freedom and danger of the ways you choose to name yourself instead. 
What do your dreams embody? How do they float and dance in your mind? 
This image reminds of the dichotomy of red versus black and white, a crowd and then journeying alone. 
I wondered how a woman fills the page and therefore fills the world with her words and ideas and how they are received by others. 
This is an illustration cut out of the New Yorker of some of our most noted woman of color in politics. 
This is a portrait of Ilhan Omar cut from the New Yorker, her hijab covered by the American flag. 
This collage exists at the intersection of pop media and images from our past. 
A reflection on Trump’s four year presidency and how all our lives and public conventions were upended. 
Public lands are under battle between economic interests and a desire to preserve the nature that exists. 
I was thinking a lot about movement, the fluidity of bodies, the fluidity of water. 
I was getting futuristic and dystopian vibes from this piece. I was trying to capture the nightmares and fantasies we occupy. We are all facets of each.
Jireh Deng 