Nonresident Alien
Oil on Canvas
46*61 cm
2024
The artist imbued this piece with the deep disorientation she felt as a "nonresident alien,” an official, cold, and clinical label that determined her liminal existence in the U.S. Amid such detachment, the "Theme Building" of LAX emerges as a stark symbol of modernity and displacement, mirroring the artist's negotiation of identity, belonging, and her navigation in a land that estranged from her cultural root.
