I Will Do It For You
Over 20 years ago my parents immigrated to the United States but fractured into two timelines, leaving me as the sole connector. Now collecting the pieces of a beginning I have little consciousness of but am deeply affected by, I now work to deepen my understanding. Within “I Will Do it For You” the imperative role of placation in the assimilation process is traversed. Placation is to soothe and mollify by concessions, to be an appeaser, yet being one does not allow for such support. Through performing as a placater within this story, I explore what it is to embody that role which I currently govern as a daughter, source of hope and new generation. Informed by archival imagery and collective images, I weave multiple visual expressions into a binary of the configured and dismissed. In my external searching, I am forced to a mirror and this mental fractal begins to unlock the depths of my existence within my family’s physical and emotional praxis.