Land of Exile

The Land of Exile depicts Chinatowns on Satellite maps, which represents Chinese migrants have expanded their footprints to rest of the world and build their own communities for the last two hundred years. They still kept their own culture and traditions after generations, the Chinese migrants is a group of people that are neither “Chinese” nor fully the citizen of the country they reside. Chinatown, as their community and land, becomes this in-between place for themselves. That’s why I call them the Land of Exile.  

The Land of Exile series was created during the pandemic, which has given me the opportunity to think about myself, my identity, my heritage, and how can I use my way to stand out for our community, and how to create a hub for us to against Asian Hate Crimes during the pandemic.