Pages of A Union
Existing in me are both my native and my host country's cultures. This mixture, which comes to be part of most first generarion immigrants, can be dividive or harmonious, and runs the gamut between these two extremes. In this union the two cultures retain each their distinctive characteristics.
I combine color and black and white photography along with printmaking, and the motion of water to represent that mixture between the two cultures in the series "Pages of A Union".
The transfer process used for the series to print the images on Arches 88 paper can be very unpredictable since there are so many variables that may affect each print being made. Each print is then unique. The printing process mirrors the subject being explored since each first generation immigrants also react in their own unique way to the mix of the two cultures that exist within them.
