University Place, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge MA
Jan 17 - Feb 20, 2012

Opening reception: Friday, Jan 20., 5:30 - 7:30 pm

I dedicate my paintings in the show to my mother, Helen Keri* Lai.

Banana Trees Grow in the snow
No Country is foreign
Nothing is ever gone

My exhibit starts with the painting, "Tainan Forever", (Tainan: Mom's birthplace, the place I spent every Summer in my childhood, Grandpa's brick Dutch House, banana trees in the court yard) and ends with the diptych, "Sunday with Mama", I did just a few weeks ago.

Nothing is ever gone.  I simply reclaimed what I thought was lost through my paintings.

*Keri is Mom's name in Japanese, her first language