emily sihan zhang > Letters to my Mom
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series of generative prints based on a love letter my dad wrote my mom in the 90s
At their home in rural China last year, my grandparents found a small piece of old paper tucked away in a book. It was a love letter that my dad wrote my mom in the '90s when they were long-distance dating, complete with frayed, folded edges and smudged blue ink. When I saw it I was immediately emotional, nostalgic for a time when loving was hard, but worthwhile. Letters to My Mom is a bittersweet homage to my parents' story and a machine exploration of loss, labor, and love. I cropped, annotated, and upscaled each character of my dad's original letter captured by my grandpa's phone camera…
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