for fucked up kids

pen and colored pencil on paper/
2012


I made The Coloring Book for Fucked Up Kids for an assignment in my first drawing class with Craig Hill. It tells the story of a Chinese-American girl whose classmates nicknamed her Ting Ting and whose mom killed her pet rabbit and ate it for dinner. It tells the story of love lost in translation, the difficulty of understanding across cultures, and the challenge of tolerating your own family. It tells the story of the lonely, messy, vibrant upbringing of the displaced.

The Coloring Book for Fucked Up Kids was exhibited in multiple dorm rooms at Kenyon College until it vanished, as did the psychedelic tapestries.

Phoebe Rotter wrote about for Fucked Up Kids in the compendium, A Celebration of Female Artists at Kenyon College.