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

mixed media - suitcase, scanned photo images, magazine text

Detail of Page 4 of “My Mother’s Baggage: Paper Sister / Paper Aunt / Paper Wife,” which consists of 6 suitcases, ranging in size. 

Collaged Text: “When they arrived in Oakland my mother and oldest sister lived apart from my father and other sisters My parents were worried that the immigration service suspected that they were married”