As species, humans and animals alike, the practice of migration goes back hundreds of thousands of years. It’s innate. Scientists track the Great Human Migration as we have expanded across the rest of the world, enthralled by human nature and nurture. Yet, in the “Nation of Immigrants,” immigrants are seen as intruders. In this narrative, we lose our fight and have our experiences invalidated. This work is a commentary on the position that immigrants often find themselves as they leave home searching for something they’ve yet to discover. As an immigrant myself, I often find myself in the pursuit for a home stuck between where I’ve come and where I’m aiming to go. This body of work came out of a feeling and experience in one country, but the immigrant and migrant experience is more significant than any one country. This work gives in to the ephemerality that is “home” as we continue the Great Human Migration, and I invite you to come along to find what it is you’re searching for. 

Mediums: India ink, acrylic, embroidery, charcoal, oil paint pens, linoleum print on hand-stretched canvas paper

This body of work has been a year long project culminating in the completion of my BFA in Fine Arts. This year’s NEXT exhibition and capstone events will be fully online. Not only is it the tenth anniversary of NEXT, but this year NEXT is an official GW bicentennial event, promoted as part of the celebration of the university’s 200th anniversary. The NEXT website launched on May 10, 2021 at next.corcoran.gwu.edu, and banners announcing the website have been hung on the Flagg Building for all to see in May. The website will stay up for about two years.

In conjunction with the website show; half of my paintings have been installed on campus at the Smith Hall of Art and will be on view to the public through June 2021. All work viewable from the street.