Mimi Bai creates a highly-coded, deeply personal iconography that repeats and evolves throughout across different mediums. She translates family photographs and ink drawings into patterns, which are then combined to create her own camouflage. One such image she uses repeatedly in her work is her “grandpa’s tooth” pattern, an abstracted rendering of Bai's grandfather’s mouth with only one tooth left. By layering and repeating this imagery across mediums, she reveals and obscures meanings simultaneously. This contradiction mirrors the paradoxical processes of assimilation: translation and obfuscation, loss and creation
Silkscreen on paper, 12.5" x 20"
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