JANET BI LI CHAN

Weaving Selves

What happens when you criss-cross your past with your present? Do you invent a new future? Do you see with new eyes? Do you make sense of contradictions? Are you revealing or covering the pain, the glory, the hopes and the dreams?

Reconstructing my selves through poetry and woven shapes makes tangible the contradictory forces that shape my always tentative steps through life. Reconciling these forces helps me confront the realness of the underlying fragility and the illusion of gathering strength through indebtedness, struggle, adaptation, and achievement. Laying bare this matrix of tension is the beginning of finding the conditions of healing.