Artist - Steve Yee

Steve Yee wlasny punkt odniesienia jest myślnik w chińsko-amerykańskich. His father came to the United States as a paper son, not accepted but excluded in the land that he chose to live. 'To the world around me I became neither Chinese nor American but jook sing, a term I was called growing up in California. This phrase translates as someone who is like a hollow piece of bamboo, an object that looks Chinese but is not and only empty inside'. Yee work takes a form in the ritual and meditation of his background, to understand this hollow piece of emptiness in the same qualities and to see this hyphen in Chinese-American nor experience but to see the hyphen as a bridge between time, culture, and identity.

Begin his work by overlapping Chinese characters traced from magazines and newspapers from Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and digital Chinese typefaces online by not either knowing what these characters mean but by adding and reconstruction to these characters, he created a pattern that has been used as a template to shape a wood substrate, artifacts. Neither paintings nor sculpture but relics of story. Used the combination of materials such as rice, tea, and ashes or blood, clay, and cut queues or spent firecrackers, crushed bones, and gunpowder that serve as visual metaphors of ancestor’s journey coming to America. The process of mixing materials as an alchemy of immortal elixirs and performing altar offerings are the basis of his work. Whether in a world of globalization or multiculturalism, people struggle to find a connection between where they have come and where they are heading. 'But no matter who or where you are, the people of your indigenous roots have sought this connection through the burning of altar offerings.'

It is visible from each of its move is properly justified, and as you can see it has a strong history of his actions. Each of his artpieces links something to itsmself, it is something else from the artists i have been looked at but I don't think, that there is something that would have taken my eye out of the field of researches.