Art history · cultural heritage
museum studies · visual culture
Archival research · oral history
photography · visual analysis
How do objects and places
carry memory across generations?
Conversations with three generations about photographs, clothing, ceramics, and letters.
Reading catalog records, family photographs, and museum interpretations side by side.
How do everyday objects become vessels of memory, identity, and migration?
How do historic neighborhoods communicate memory when their buildings, businesses, and visual languages are continually changing? The project treats the street as a living archive.
I photograph Chinatown storefronts, family businesses, community institutions, signage, public art, and historic architecture, then map the visual details that reveal continuity and adaptation.
A growing photographic index pairs field notes with oral histories and architectural research. Together, they document how place can hold community identity even as its streetscape evolves.
A worn edge, repair, or inscription can reveal how an object was valued, handled, and remembered.
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Facades, thresholds, and signs hold traces of the people who built, adapted, and cared for a place.
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Labels, groupings, and omissions shape how visitors understand an object and the culture around it.
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