From our Dear, Dear Puffin Friend Bundith Phunsombatlert
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Participated in three group exhibitions, eight studio visits with art professionals, and one work-in-progress open studios in 2022. Confirmed for two individual exhibitions and one group exhibitions in 2023 2022 Group Exhibitions: |
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(January 13 – 27, 2022) Studio Visits (8 times between April – November, 2022): – Private and group studio visits with art professionals In-progress public events: 2023 |
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– “Mapping Fragments: History of Blue and White Porcelain”, mhProject, New York (TBA, summer 2023) – “Mapping Fragments: History of Blue and White Porcelain”, Brooklyn Public Library (Central) (March-June, 2023) Group Exhibitions: |
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Chapel of St. Savior), USA |
6. Describe any changes from your original proposal:
Mapping Fragments: History of Blue and White Porcelain is a large-scale installation that weaves together a media art technique of blue and white porcelain with the historical context of immigration, tracing the unseen paths of immigrants and their immigration stories. The installation’s vast scenery of real and imagined landscapes is constructed from small blue and white porcelain fragments displayed in multiple long display cases that are arranged within the whole space of each exhibition venue. For this project, porcelain pieces referencing U.S. museum collections of this type of ceramic are overlaid and digitally transferred by images of plants that were brought to the U.S. through the Transatlantic Slave Trade – a forced migration that’s considered the first system of globalization. The selected plants to represent migration are based on oral interviews with Caribbean senior immigrants in the US. My individual exhibition at mhproject, New York, has been postponed to be in the summer of 2023, due to the delay of the production processes. The difficulties of the production of this project is to produce the large number of small fragments of blue and white porcelain 
which needs a lot of extra labor intensive and process of production.
*The proposed project was accepted by the Brooklyn Public Library (Central) and will be exhibited there from March-June, 2023.
One of the challenges of the project is how the narrative stories that I collect from the oral interviews with senior immigrants from the Caribbean can be placed in the historical context of immigration and transformed to be a form of an art project. Mapping Fragments: History of Blue and White Porcelain aims to enrich understanding of the history of U.S. immigration in neighborhoods where art exhibitions are not typically considered, including the senior community in Brownsville-Brooklyn (where most of the senior immigrants live), Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and New York Historic Houses. The project will directly reach participants and their community of over 2,000 children, adults, and seniors through the exhibition venues and community presentation.
