Gold Mountain art installation by artist Flo Oy Wong displayed at “Whispers of the Past,” an art exhibition held from January 20 - March 24, 2007 at the Forty Acres Art Gallery in Sacramento, CA. Installations created for Bill King (flight suit) and Ming Nee Mah (barber chair) are seen in this photo. Each installations also included hanging scroll collages created from photos shared by the families.

In her essay,  On Voice and Memory: Flo Oy Wong, art historian Dr. Melanie Herzog writes “In Whispers of the Past, four installations Wong created in 2007, previously untold stories are revealed in visual form and accompanying text—like whispered, fragmentary memories buried and exposed over time. Wong sought to uncover the stories of key Chinese individuals in Sacramento and the Delta region of central California. Deeply honored to hear these stories, told to her by relatives of her subjects, Wong describes their reclamation as a process of “collaborative retrieval” in which these unspoken narratives poured forth “like a waterfall that has been sequestered in a teeny, tiny faucet.”

Photo from the archives of artist Flo Oy Wong.