VII. Undergraduate into graduate work: Deflowered
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In two large-scale installations from the final year of her studies at SFAI, Wong expanded her use of language and textile. RA–E drew on and revised the method of Lo_ita . Here, girls’ socks were embroidered with individual letters and then hung on a clothesline at the height of a typical adult. The message communicated here was more explicit: the socks were mismatched so that the letters R, A, P, and E came together, over and over again. In Deflowered , Wong returned to the technique of excision. Children’s nightgowns were embroidered with floral trim and then torn. The embroidered flowers were installed on the floor as the nightgowns’ only remaining trace.
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Lo_ita , 1993. Children’s coats, a pair of men’s pants, coat hooks, embroidery thread. 48 × 456 × 6 inches
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