ABOUT ME

I have always been an observant person. I notice things that are easy to miss: a bright pink beetle, a rainbow in a puddle, or the flicker of recognition on someone’s face when I mention my grandfather, Dr. Wang Bingzhang, a Chinese pro-democracy activist who has spent more than two decades imprisoned in China. His story has shaped the way I understand freedom, sacrifice, and the personal cost of political conviction.

I am an artist, writer, student, and political activist interested in human rights, democracy, memory, surveillance, and freedom of expression. Much of my advocacy has grown from my family’s connection to China’s democracy movement, but I am equally interested in the broader question of how political systems shape ordinary lives.

Art and writing are the two ways I make sense of those questions. My sculptures, paintings, mixed-media works, photography, and film often explore confinement, identity, social pressure, censorship, and political repression. I like turning abstract forces into something physical: anxiety into bones and thread, isolation into space, history into material.

Writing gives me another language. I love the tension between thought and expression, the attempt to translate an inner world into words that readers may interpret in entirely different ways. I am especially drawn to history, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and research because each offers a different way of understanding another person’s experience.

I do not see art, writing, history, law, and activism as separate pursuits. They come from the same instinct: to look closely, ask difficult questions, and make visible what might otherwise remain unseen.