RISD CRY

Collaborating with Health and Wellness Ambassadors (HAWAs), RISD CRY is a participatory project empowering the RISD community to share their experiences of emotional vulnerability. The project includes physical sign-in forms in campus facilities, a Google Doc sign-in form, illustrations of participants’ comments, and an online campus map where individuals can mark where they have cried. This multi-format engagement fosters community connection, challenges the stigma surrounding emotional expression, and provides a platform for solidarity among individuals facing stress and burnout.

Hiders was born out of my own reflections on absence and loss from the pandemic of COVID-19, a time when grief became both a collective experience and a painfully intimate one. Hiders investigate those silences through an imagined dialogue with my late uncle, whom I never had the chance to know but whose absence has been a major contributor to my understanding of family and identity.

Zine - The F* Words: Food, Fermentation, and Feminism

"The F* Words" is a reduction woodcut comic on moldy paper sealed in ziplock bags, exploring my experience as an immigrant queer daughter in relation to my family and their food-making practice. The water-color ink was mixed with milk, fruit, and juice, which caused molds to grow into the print.

In My Next Life, I Reincarnated as a Spotted Lanternfly

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