Shing Yin Khor is a cartoonist and installation artist exploring collections, memory, immigrant identity, and new human rituals. They founded the immersive installation art group Three Eyed Rat, which has built large-scale space desert apothecaries, decrepit space salvage stations in the forest, and lumberjack-themed bars.
In airports, I have never been a resident alien; I am a traveler, just like everyone else.
I don’t want to write today. I don’t want to write about violence today. I don’t want to write about honor or duty or respect today.
The authenticity of chop suey was always the authenticity of survival, of adaptation. And so, like generations of Chinese Americans, chop suey stayed.
I’ll drive with that tender balance of guilt and curiosity and a lifetime of learning and unlearning, still looking for an America that was there, is there, and will be there.
Yes, I dared to eat a peach. And I had to live, so I could eat another.
Adapted and reinvented and reborn—not venerated, but persistent, present, iconic. Is this such a bad fate?
I have forgotten how to speak two languages. But I have learned this one.
