I proposed to make a form that addresses the metaphors of erosion, dissolving, transfer and, in essence, change. It has been my experience that these are very common phenomena of emagration/immagration. People hold onto parts of their culture of origin and lose others. I want to make a work that consists of a solid—salt, sugar, pigment, or ink—which is slowly dissolved by a liquid, changing states over time.
The form of the solid may take the shape of something significant. However, central to the idea is the transition of matter from state to state and possibly from place to place. Set in the context of the Ah, Motherland! residency, this action of state changing begins to imply the broader issues of changing landscapes, identities, perceptions.
