Karmic Creditor

Authors

Yimiao Wang, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

12-1-2023

Description

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

Keywords

artists' books, Baker & Whitehill

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Graduate student

Year of Graduation

2025

Major

Illustration

Materials + Techniques

Oil pastel on paper, cotton thread

Student Narrative

This zine borrows a Chinese Buddhist concept of the mother-child relationship: there is a debt the child owes to its mother for childbirth. In the context of Chinese society, the rhetoric of kinship is often used as a strategy to maintain the hegemony of patriarchy by arbitrarily categorizing the child as property under the name of a hetero-patriarchal monogamous family.

Photo Credit

Miles Tong 2025 FAV

Recommended Citation

Wang, Yimiao; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Karmic Creditor" (2023). 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024. 47.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest10th2024/47