WORK

I WORK HARD, EVERYDAY.

My labor is not free.

I built HAPTIC,

a PRESS to empower the voices and attempts of artists.

I MAKE, WRITE, EXPRESS.

And make myself vulnerable

because the personal is political.

Contact: misreadingart[at]gmail[dot]com

@hapticindustries on Instagram

CURRENT PROJECTS

MISS

a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,” “wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating: mistrial; misprint; mistrust.

MẸ, TRANSLATED

“Mẹ, Translated” is a mixed-media art project on love, language, memory and everything lost in translation in between.

BIBO-XINHXICH

Xinh

Xich

Translation is an interpretive act. Based on context, gestures, tone-room-feeling of an uttered word, we create meaning. That meaning of the word changes each time we attempt to explain it. New iterations, contexts, interpretations, and feelings attach to the word, breathing new life and meaning.

Excerpts from “The undeniable force of khó khăn” / FILM

She used a certain vocabulary to tell her stories.

Hy sinh
Khó khăn
Chịu khó

I did not understand their precise meaning, but became familiar with their sounds. Whispers of the past professed through stories of struggle and sacrifice.

Hy sinh
Khó khăn
Chịu khó

The words were fragmented totems—heavy with a metaphysics of meaning and untranslatable into the American English of my suburban childhood realities. I held the totems in my hands, ran my fingers along their textures, and carefully placed them in my treasure chest.

The words represented my mother’s life. Each word embodied tales of worlds past, dreams lost, the impossible overcome.