Talon _

Lives and works in Sacramento, CA

Artist statement

Talon (she/her) is a queer Korean transracial, transnational adoption survivor who uses mixed media with found poetry and photography to create analog paper collages. She primarily works with cut-out words, phrases, and images found in a multitude of printed materials. This deliberate visual style pays homage to the adoptees who were kidnapped, our birth families lied to, and then sold to predominantly white Christian countries in the West. Using collage as a form of resistance to educate about the adoptee narrative, she does not make art only for commercial consumption. She makes art to be the change she wishes to see through the lens of social justice. At the intersection of identity, lack of ancestry, adoptee sovereignty and abolition, through her practice she invites critical inquiry of white saviorism’s role in all facets of society, particularly transracial, transnational adoption. Therefore, her work is not just a collage; it is a catalyst, an attestation, and the belief in the power of transformation.

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