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Publication Date
Winter 1-1-2017
Keywords
artists' books, ancestry, digital information, ephemera, dual-citizenship, student artists' book contest, fourth
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Student Status
Undergraduate student
Year of Graduation
2019
Major
Printmaking
Faculty / Course
Leah Wolff, Junior Print Workshop Seminar/Crit.
Materials + Techniques
Van Dyke Brown prints, walnut ink
Student Narrative
In September of 2017 my family learned that my great grandfather, Yu Han Mou, was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese 12th Army Group. After fleeing to Taiwan, he left behind land in Guangzhou that we are now trying to claim. Without ever meeting him, my grandparents, or visiting China, I was forced to turn to found digital imagery from Google, Google Maps, scans of lost family photos, and emails between my family and American Citizen Services in Taipei, in an attempt to forge memories with a past forgotten. This book is a fabricated heirloom to validate the completely digital relationship I have with my ancestral past into a tangible, convincing piece of evidence.
Photo Credit
Mariah Bennett, MDes Interior Architecture, 2018
Recommended Citation
Ho, Alayna; Library, Fleet; and Collections, Special, "Yu Han Mou" (2017). 4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018. 9.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest4th2018/9