VI. Undergraduate work: Defiled Childhood
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Three undergraduate installations evince Wong’s earliest engagement with textile—and with how the medium might be used to evoke, memorialize, and repair violence against girls. In Cherry cloth , Wong defaced children’s nightgowns with cherry pie filling as if it were blood. She smeared frosting on doll parts and then assembled them in stacked cake boxes outfitted with a tablecloth in Baked goods . Lo_ita , meanwhile, continued the artist’s exploration of silence. Wong embroidered children’s names on thirty found coats and then ripped one letter out. The coats were installed on hooks at a height of forty-eight inches, the typical height at which children would hang their coats. On the opposing wall, a single pair of man’s pants hung with loose threads zipped into the fly.
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Selected Works: Fragments and Experiments
Strip , 1992. Performance with pornography magazines, sidewalk. 0.5 × 84 inches (magazine strip).
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