professor
5x7in, oil on yupo

ryuichi sakamoto for the The New Yorker

earth keeper
for Emergence Magazine

our time is up
oil on paper, 8 x 11 in
2023
for the The New Yorker

Why are you bagging your bananas? They already come prepackaged and even have a little handle at the top you stinky idiot

I watched you see me for the first time
oil on panel, 48 x 60 in
2023

self
24 x 36', oil on panel, 2023

In a moment of spontaneous communion, a fig tree on a sidewalk in Philadelphia gathers members of a community amid its spreading branches, offering them a bounty of fruit. Read the poem “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian” by Ross Gay.
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Art by James Lee Chiahan

reclamation studies

'reclamation'
oil on panel, 24 x 48 in, 2023

crooked channel, folded temple

new leaf, old leaf

Figure drawing

for the The Washington Post on China's prison deradicalization programs and the young Hong Kong protestors subjected to them.
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