Flo Oy Wong, “My Mother’s Baggage: Paper Sister / Paper Aunt / Paper Wife,” 1998

mixed media - suitcase, scanned photo images, magazine text

Page 3 of “My Mother’s Baggage: Paper Sister / Paper Aunt / Paper Wife,” which consists of 6 suitcases, ranging in size. 

Collaged Text: “My mother arrived she came not as my father’s wife but as his sister and aunt to my sisters Why? because the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Law and the 1924 National Origins Act forbade the entry of Chinese wives of US citizens”