Flo Oy Wong, Flag 20: Chan Share, 1939
24” x 36”
mixed media (rice sack, beads, sequins, stenciled text)
In 1939, Chan Share entered the U.S. as a "paper son,"
claiming this uncle as his father. He stayed at Angel Island for two
and a half months. His real father was a railroad worker in the U.S.
who returned to China permanently in 1893.