Charlotte G. Chin Greene

Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Artist statement

Through sculpture, new media, and drawing, I contemplate human and non-human participation with technology. In my work, I often utilize 3D-scanning and 3D-modeling. Since 2021, I have made 3D scans of car parts which I use as references for drawings and sculptures. This body of work contemplates the planetary evolution of vision, perception, and memory and reflects on the global psychological effects of Western technology and machine manufacturing. This work began in Winter 2020 while I witnessed my maternal grandmother in her final months with dementia. During that time, I observed her become increasingly out-of-sync with the present, as we communicated solely via Zoom. I reflected on not only the relationship between virtual memory, technology, and time, but also my generational inheritance of cultural memory, psychopathology, and loss. I began to associate the out-of-sync, broken car parts I found on the street in Philadelphia with the out-of-sync memory loops that my grandmother experienced with her dementia. My grandmother, who immigrated to New York City from Shanghai in the late 1920s, carried with her our family memories, as well as her own childhood traumas of WWI Japanese occupation and illegal immigration under the Chinese Exclusion Act. Collecting and transforming objects becomes a conduit to honor the evolution of my family’s journey. I inherited my impulse to collect and adapt objects from her; in many ways it is a compulsion to recover what was lost. Through...

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