Yu Mai Gee Fon
- mixed media (rice sacks, sequins, beads, thread, Chinese calligraphy)
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170 x 321 in
(431.8 x 815.34 cm)
- Flo Oy Wong
Yu Mai Gee Fon, 1986–2004, is a visual homage to Wong's immigrant parents, Gee Seow Hong and Gee SueyTing. Started in 1986, Flo Oy Wong, began sewing rice sacks together. She would later realize that the work came to depict the shooting of her father in April of 1940. It become a homage to her family coming together during a traumatic time, her father (who survived the attack) and her mother who did not stop to find the man that shot her father. “Yu Mai Gee Fon,” which means “there is rice to cook for dinner.”
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Culture: American
Geographic Location: North and Central America, United States
Credit Line: Gift of the Artist
- Subject Matter: Art Quilt
- Created: 1998
- Inventory Number: 2015.482