Artist Talk at MGH New Year & Spring Festival Gala
February 28, 2025
I was fortunate to be invited to give an artist talk for the Year of the Horse Spring Festival Gala celebration, hosted at the MGH headquarters at Assembly Row. It was a chance to share my work, but also to be in conversation with a community that has quietly accompanied my practice over the past few years.
Relationship with MGH
My relationship with MGH began in 2024, when I was invited to lead a calligraphy workshop as part of the AAPI celebration. Through that first event, I met many generous and thoughtful people who made the hospital feel less like an institution and more like a community.
Since then, I've been invited back several times—first to show work during the AAPI celebration, and now to return again for this Spring Festival Gala. I feel deeply honored by this continuity.
In many Asian traditions, community isn't built through grand gestures. It grows slowly—through small conversations, care, and returning. Being back at MGH feels meaningful not only as an artist, but as someone growing alongside this community. In a quiet way, they have witnessed the evolution of my practice over the past two years, and it's that sense of resilience and endurance in my recent work that I wanted to bring to MGB.
Key takeaways
There were two main ideas I hoped people would carry from the talk. First, I hope the drawings offer more than just a depiction of the Loess Plateau. I hope they also serve as a reminder that resilience can be quiet, layered, and collective—that landscapes hold memory, and that care often looks like staying with a place over time.
Second, I've come to realize that I love art not only for the act of making, but for the communities it creates. It's these relationships that lead to discoveries, spark conversations, and nurture trust.
Art grows through relationships, and I'm grateful that that this community at MGH continues to grow with me.
I was fortunate to be invited to give an artist talk for the Year of the Horse Spring Festival Gala celebration, hosted at the MGH headquarters at Assembly Row. It was a chance to share my work, but also to be in conversation with a community that has quietly accompanied my practice over the past few years.
Relationship with MGH
My relationship with MGH began in 2024, when I was invited to lead a calligraphy workshop as part of the AAPI celebration. Through that first event, I met many generous and thoughtful people who made the hospital feel less like an institution and more like a community.
Since then, I've been invited back several times—first to show work during the AAPI celebration, and now to return again for this Spring Festival Gala. I feel deeply honored by this continuity.
In many Asian traditions, community isn't built through grand gestures. It grows slowly—through small conversations, care, and returning. Being back at MGH feels meaningful not only as an artist, but as someone growing alongside this community. In a quiet way, they have witnessed the evolution of my practice over the past two years, and it's that sense of resilience and endurance in my recent work that I wanted to bring to MGB.
Key takeaways
There were two main ideas I hoped people would carry from the talk. First, I hope the drawings offer more than just a depiction of the Loess Plateau. I hope they also serve as a reminder that resilience can be quiet, layered, and collective—that landscapes hold memory, and that care often looks like staying with a place over time.
Second, I've come to realize that I love art not only for the act of making, but for the communities it creates. It's these relationships that lead to discoveries, spark conversations, and nurture trust.
Art grows through relationships, and I'm grateful that that this community at MGH continues to grow with me.