Part III: United Fight
United Fight is a multimedia piece of my friends and I at a protest, against a backdrop of anti-Asian hate related headlines. When confronting injustice, I saw that my fight was not singular, but a universal, unifying one.
I painted an image of my friends and I at a rally. To create the backdrop, I requested newspapers from community members, which I collected and sorted for articles regarding anti-Asian hate. I framed those headlines around my painted protesters by outlining the figures on tracing paper and cutting out those silhouettes on my chosen articles. After gluing the reshaped newspapers to my canvas, I drew line art for the final layer, which depicts unifying symbols that many Americans can connect with.
United Fight has won state and national honors through the California State Senate Arts Awards, where it was the only piece earning recognition from San Diego. This piece has been exhibited at the Riverside Museum of Art.
