Jackie Liu
Daly City, CA
Jackie Liu is a disabled Chinese American painter and storyteller who explores joy, playfulness, humor, and gratitude as modes of resistance and healing.
Message
This piece explores the fraught terrain of returning to a home filled with ugly memories, of being trapped in a hostile space haunted by ghosts of the past. The gruesome distortion of the face serves as a physical manifestation of the nightmarish suffocation within.