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.
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The authenticity of chop suey was always the authenticity of survival, of adaptation. And so, like generations of Chinese Americans, chop suey stayed.
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How do you mourn someone who is still alive, who might as well be a stranger now?
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I found it freeing: to accept—instead of fear—gravity, to savor that brief float before the fall.
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According to people I met back home, my face didn’t match my voice.
