MRS. JADE Tammi Sison

Back in high school, I watched a short video on kintsugi, the Japanese technique of fixing broken things with gold---making what's broken, beautiful again---and I felt inspired to make a piece connecting this idea to the many self image issues I've struggled with as a Filipino American immigrant I can never forget the constant weirdness and ugliness I felt as a child, and it was a wild experience growing up to see these same features I despised being commercialized and bastardized by Western media---and in culture, even romance, becoming afraid of being a fetish

I created Mrs. Jade as a symbol of the feelings I had felt and still feel today, from this brokenness, to healing, to understanding the complexity of beauty, trying to distinguish what issues come fromwithin and those coming fromthe ravages of visual culture