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Trimet’s 2024 AAPI month bus wrap was informed by the Southeast/East Asian myth, Dragon Gate, of the carp’s waterfall ascension and metamorphosis into dragon form. I found symmetry between my mother's expatriation from South Korea to America and the key themes from the myth: obstacles, perseverance, bravery, and reinvention. In The Odyssey of the Dragon, the carp's transformation is a mode of adaptation; the scales remind of where the carp began, but the decision to make the journey has forever changed the once fish. Becoming the dragon, brings an onset of new challenges that parallels the complexity of my mother’s experience. In my mother, I see the dragon. This is for her.

For more on this bus wrap, check out Trimet's Wrap Archive.

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"At night I keep igniting dreams, to clean every memory with sacred smoke.”

"At night I keep igniting dreams, to clean every memory with sacred smoke.”

– Natalia Lafourcade, from the song Hasta la Raiz

everywhen is an installation that explores dreams through family bond. Combining analogue and digital modes of making–ink drawings, digitized hi8 tapes, risograph animation, printmaking, projection mapping, video and sound–this multimedia project considers circular time and familial memory. The installation conjures the interior worlds of grief and gratitude, the viewer in a porous space immersing where the dream slips between night and day.

everywhen at PICA

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ilish bath’s first commissioned illustration was for her elementary school’s yearly Christmas card. Since then, her commissions range from album covers, native plant textiles, lunar + spring celebrations, tarot cards, public art–city bus wraps honoring Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander diasporas and matriarchal journeys. ilish’s RISO journey began with her multimedia installation, everywhen, that combined ink drawings, digitized hi8 tapes + family photo albums, projection mapping and risograph animation to explore circular time, dreams, familial memory and bond. ilish prints and teaches at nůn studios—illustrating, and assisting in a wide range of art, production, exhibition, and mural services—applying a lifelong drawing practice and persistent desire to learn within community contexts. ilish's exploratory RISO practice honors diasporic cultures, while deepening and honoring her Korean roots.