Ports of Entry explores what it means to be Chinese in Canada.

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This body of work was researched and conceptualized from 2018 - 2021, culminating in an extended trip through British Columbia in 2021, to research the history of Chinese settler migration from the late 1800s. My trip wound along the Gold Rush Trail and alongside the railway routes carved into the mountainsides by Chinese labourers. I recorded the juxtapositions of the celebrated histories and landmarks with the indelible marks left on the landscape by the labour of Chinese settlers. Movement and migration write on to the landscape who has privilege, who must pay, who is held apart and separate.

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This multi-media exhibition encompasses traditional drawings and paintings, juxtaposed with animated and interactive artwork. 

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