IX. Language Lost and Recovered
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A series of works that build upon Wong’s graduate work at SFAI center her desire to use textile to recover buried memories and lost language. In Read Between the Lines , her MFA thesis, Wong embroidered garbled language on cotton strips sewn together with thread dipped in cow’s blood. Over two decades later, Wong restaged the work. This time, the textile was hung not as a wall-mounted scroll, but as a gentle loop suspended from the ceiling. Begun in 1998 and finished in 2024, Lost Language brings together scraps of embroidered linen, tulle, and other fabrics with painted paper and magazine clippings. While the text in Read Between the Lines was English, the text in this piece is primarily Hebrew—the language of Wong’s Jewish ancestors.
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Selected Works: Fragments and Experiments
Reverie , 1998. Color photograph mounted on black gatorboard. 17 × 21 inches.
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