Friday, January 30, 2015


My Mother and Betty Crocker, mixed Media, 2014.

This piece was created for Eating Cultures, an art exhibition by the Asian American Women Artists Association curated by Margo Machida.

I adapted a chapter from my memoir-in-progress and replaced Jane Wyatt, the all-knowing TV mom in Father Knows Best with Betty Crocker, the cookbook icon that General Mills created to sell enriched flour, and later Bisquick and cake mix.

The 1950s pink stove is covered with found objects: 1980s Woo and Locke refrigerator magnets of hot dogs, hamburgers and Chinese take-out,