dandelion dancers

dandelion dancers is an ongoing series that began in 2022 as I reflected on my ongoing movment practice and memory is access through the body. The repetitive nature of dance practice, as well as the joy and inner stillness found in movement helped me reconstruct my sense of self.

Working with dried petals and discarded floral debris, I constructed figurative forms that reference gesture, posture, and embodied memory. These materials, often treated as waste, become a site to examine how value is culturally assigned, and how bodies deemed fragile or transient can hold agency and presence.

As the series developed, I began situating the figures within layered pictorial environments. Open-source Southeast Asian scroll paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art were introduced as backdrops, prompting questions about cultural inheritance, displacement, and the construction of ancestral memory. The most recent work incorporates my own photographic landscape, shifting the inquiry from inherited space toward lived and self-authored ground.

The nine works exhibited here, produced between 2022 and 2025, trace an evolving visual and conceptual investigation into embodiment, cultural memory, and the aesthetics of what is overlooked or discarded.