An origin point for this body of work is a pictograph for the word “no”, said to represent a calyx, a root, or a bird flying into the sky. Interrogating how this image and its meaning came together invites an open and responsive way of being in the world. This new/old fluidity underlies the linguistic, therapeutic, and ecological frameworks that run through Ho’s residency and forthcoming exhibition.

During their residency, Ho will complete artworks for their exhibition, TRIPLE BURNER FLOWER FIELD, including ceramics, textiles, video, and scent pieces focusing on these dualist topics. Of particular interest to the artist is a line of inquiry that travels between the meeting points of various binaries and examines the complexity that emerges from their energetic confluence. These dualities include the contrast between emptiness and negation, separation and wholeness, and value as it is understood within the sacred and within capital.

Ho intends to create a space that attends to the slow, cyclical temporality of common plants significant to traditional Chinese medicine and the age of imperialism. The body of work includes interviews on healing and agriculture that move from the Cultural Revolution to the current wave of diaspora from Hong Kong, arriving and unsettling without finality on unceded lands.