Samuel Chen
Animal Family is a collection of ceramic pieces that form a community, sharing a common thread of identity, fantasy, and weirdness. These pieces are what I would call iterations or snippets of a greater story that transcends my voice into a larger conversation of hybrid beasts inside the human form. As a queer mixed race Chinese American, these beasts and figures are physically and metaphorically symbolic of the cultural complexities I’ve experienced in the communities I belong to.
