I grew up navigating between a traditional Chinese immigrant household and the unsympathetic digital landscape of the late 2000s internet. In this space, I felt repeatedly drawn to images that hold multiplicities of meaning: a snake is not just the villainess in the show I watched with my cousins but the avatar of the game I played with my classmates. Interested in when these symbols bleed into their respective worlds, I focus on objects that overlap in my parallel digital and physical cultural narratives. My practice accumulates these objects to create a personal iconographic lexicon. In doing so, I work to create monuments to my multimedia background while reaching out to others like me—digital natives in diasporic communities.
Presently, my non-fiction writing investigates the idea of digital folklores, in which the Internet changes and amplifies the impact and trajectories of classical folktales. In my off time, I write about the weather, the gutters, and the internal turmoil of anonymous nomads in vague spaces.
I am currently at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA Ceramics, Theory and History of Art and Design, C/O2025).
Contact at kfu01@risd.edu, katherinemfu@gmail.com