100 Portraits 

11″x17″
Acrylic on recycled paper

Hand painted portraits of 100 grains of rice, mirroring the average of 100 reported racist attacks against Asians in America every day since the rise of COVID-19. 100 grains of rice to symbolize a number that is likely an undercount of the true attacks occurring daily. 100 grains of rice to symbolize a community of people who have been minimized and deemed expendable. 100 grains of rice to symbolize 100 real people. These individual traumas build the body of a larger whole. A whole commonly characterized by a position in the margins. A whole clumped together, not only shielding themselves from a virus but from verbal hate and violence.