"Yea, I just gotta relax today. But I don't know how I am going to do this... always having to build big things. You gotta do what you feel led to though, you know. I just need to move to China, get a studio there and hire an artist assistant. It's cheaper that way," Ting retorted.
"You need to hire like three Chinese men," I said.
Then we both laughed... wishfully hoping we would, one day, be able to hire 'an artist assistant.'
Ting Ying Han is a good friend of mine and a talented emerging artist. Her works mainly deal with her experiences of coming to the States and inner-personal changes she has been going through. She works in sculptures, installations, video, and performance. Her rising consciousness of space and environment reveals her exploration in ideas of 'home' and 'comfort.' Leaving her family in Twain at the age of 20, she talks often her feelings of disconnected-ness with her family back home. Ting's personal investigation of her family relationships, changes, and growth is sometimes painful and revealing, yet beautiful.
She is currently building a corner of house (life-size) at Ox-Bow. I feel as though her process of making this body of work is becoming performative.
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| Passage, 2010 |
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| Passage, 2010 |
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| Self-Storage, 2009 |
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| Self-Storage, 2009 |
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