Messages: 2011–2017
(installation) 

2018
Paper, archival pigment prints, books, digital projection, sound Dimensions variable

A collaboration with artist Yun Liao and technologist Iain Nash. This four-volume epistolary novel and accompanying installation contains the entirety of a seven-year text message thread between Luke Luokun Cheng and Yun Liao, two queer lovers who lived across the Atlantic from each other. The book's contents detail the young man and woman's formative years as they navigate their relationship as well as their sexualities, families, education, and work. The installation filled the rooms of a one-bedroom New York apartment with the pages of the novel. The public was invited to enter the apartment and read the pages of the book as well as supplementary material, including photographs and a digital projection of the artists working on the installation together.

Messages: 2011–2017
(books)

2018
Paper, ink, ribbon, linen, binding
8.5" x 5.5" x 6.5"