Altar with Ahma Reciting Poetry

installation

created for the Ofrendas 2020 exhibition for Self Help Graphics' 47th Annual Día de los Muertos celebration

2020

photo by Elon Schoenholz

The niche altar opens a communication portal between the artist and her late paternal grandmother Sool-sin Chan Ling (1922-2014). Offerings, mementos, and ephemera of the present moment are placed before a painting of Ahma reciting from a book of poetry.