I’m excited to share with you a new project of mine that has a lot of personal significance to me. In this paper sculpture diptych, I explore my mixed-race heritage by examining ancestral hometowns on both sides of my family: the Northern Minnesotan town of Two Harbors on the left, and the Gujarati fishing town of Diu on the right.
This work illustrates a number of dichotomies that shaped my experience of being mixed: the nuclear family versus large, interconnected communities, individualism versus collectivism, and isolation versus enmeshment.
Here are satellite images of Two Harbors, MN (left) and Diu, Gujarat (right) for reference:
And here’s a fun little process video showing the hundreds of tiny paper boxes before they got glued down: