The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter 长干行
Diptych, archival pigment print 2011-2012
Cathay is a photographic project structured in direct correspondence with Cathay (1915) by Ezra Pound. The series consists of nineteen photographic diptychs, each aligned with one poem from Pound’s book.
Produced between 2011 and 2025 across the United States, the work functions as a visual re-translation, extending a sequence of poetic transmission from classical Chinese poetry through modernist English and into contemporary photographic form.
Each diptych pairs color and black-and-white images made across different moments in time, forming a layered structure of memory, duration, and return.
Song of the Bowmen of Shu 诗经·小雅·采薇
Diptych, archival pigment print 2012
Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku 游仙诗·翡翠戏兰芍
Diptych, archival pigment print 2012
The City of Choan 登金陵凤凰
Diptych, archival pigment print 2013-2014
The River Song II 侍从宜春苑奉诏赋龙池柳色初青听新莺百嗽歌
Diptych, archival pigment print 2012-2025
At the Gate of Go from Four Poems of Departure 送元二使安西
Diptych, archival pigment print 2012-2025
To-Em-Mei's "The Unmoving Cloud" 停云诗
Diptych, archival pigment print 2013-2025
The River Song I 江上吟
Diptych, archival pigment print 2012-2025