At Kucera Gallery, there was C, a silhouette of my grandmother, as well as three obliquely autobiographical works. L, a wall covered with paper dolls cut from silk tissue with lace-like burn holes, and pinned through the head to the wall. The silhouette of the paper doll was based on my image in a 4th Grade class photo. In the video Removal, the hairs on my big toe are plucked, one by one. Cut into the sequence is footage from a 1919 film in which young girls in kimono dance a maypole dance in Hawai'i. Finally, there was a color photo of my tongue stuck out, my face cropped so it is nearly an abstraction.

Photo credits: Lucretia Knapp, Spike Mafford and Lynne Yamamoto