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This image	comment	Flo Oy Wong, Come, My Child , 2008; mixed media; 20 x 9 x 2 in.; photo: courtesy the artist ?Cocooning: The Third Eye Dolls? Piwowarczyk: Could you tell me a little bit about the show you?re in right now? It?s called ?New World Order: Humanity.? Wong: Yes, I was invited by the San Francisco Museum Modern Art gallery to be part of this exhibition. And I make work and if people buy that?s wonderful. I don?t make work to sell. And when I received the invitation from the curator, she said, ?If you accept this invitation, you have to be willing to sell your work.? And that was a challenge, because I do installations. I am in a lot of collections, but that?s because people are just pleased by what I make. And so I said, ?Oh, ok.? And I spoke to my gallerist in New York and she said, ?Could you make something small? Your works are all so big.? And so I said, ?ok, what could I do that?s small that people might want to buy and take away?? And so I had an epiphany one day, it came to me at one in the morning?dolls. And that?s really interesting because as I told you, I had an impoverished childhood and I never had a doll in my life. I may have had one?I seem to recall that somebody from the Salvation Army, which was one or two blocks away from our restaurant, might have brought me a doll one day, but I have a faint recall of that. But I don?t remember dolls as part of my life. And so there I was, at the age of 70, playing with dolls.? ? Flo Oy Wong interview, Asian American Art Oral History Project at Via Sapientiae, Digital Commons@DePaul Interviewer: Angelika Piwowarczyk Artist: Flo Oy Wong Phone interview Chicago, IL/ Sunnyvale, CA Date: June 3, 2009 6:30 ? 7:45pm CST
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Piwowarczyk: Could you tell me a little bit about the show you?re in right now? It?s called
?New World Order: Humanity.?

Wong: Yes, I was invited by the San Francisco Museum Modern Art gallery to be part of this

exhibition. And I make work and if people buy that?s wonderful. I don?t make work to sell.

And when I received the invitation from the curator, she said, ?If you accept this invitation, you have to be willing to sell your work.? And that was a challenge, because I do installations. I am in a lot of collections, but that?s because people are just pleased by what I make. And so I said, ?Oh, ok.? And I spoke to my gallerist in New York and she said, ?Could you make something small? Your works are all so big.? And so I said, ?ok, what could I do that?s small that people might want to buy and take away?? And so I had an epiphany one day, it came to me at one in the morning?dolls. And that?s really interesting because as I told you, I had an impoverished childhood and I never had a doll in my life. I may have had one?I seem to recall that somebody from the Salvation Army, which was one or two blocks away from our restaurant, might have brought me a doll one day, but I have a faint recall of that. But I don?t remember dolls as part of my life. And so there I was, at the age of 70, playing with dolls.?

? Flo Oy Wong interview, Asian American Art Oral History Project at Via Sapientiae, Digital Commons@DePaul

Interviewer: Angelika Piwowarczyk
Artist: Flo Oy Wong
Phone interview Chicago, IL/ Sunnyvale, CA
Date: June 3, 2009 6:30 ? 7:45pm CST