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“I want people to feel happy and stronger”: Chelsea Wong s detailed works are filled with love and optimism
The artist talks us through her recent endeavours, creating positive and diverse works in response to a difficult year.
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When artist Chelsea Wong was growing up, she was innately influenced by her parents: her mother was a graphic designer and her father a professor of political science, who’d teach classes on philosophy and Marxist theory at Evergreen State College. Both had a profound impact on the type of career that Chelsea would end up pursuing, which was assuredly artistic. “I was exposed to and understood the value and importance of art from a very young age,” she tells It’s Nice That. “I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in a family that encouraged creativity.”
Bob Haozous, Racism Shrine (2020) The Houser Foundation
At the end of a year that has been marked by racial injustice and the fight against it, the Apache artist Bob Haozous has unveiled a monumental sculpture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that addresses the “racist indoctrination of Western forces” on Indigenous culture, he says.
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Racism Shrine (2020), the 48ft-tall steel pyramid lists the various injustices “that men inflict on other men”, according to Haozous, including “caste, gender, ethnic, regional, economic, cultural, political, religious, educational, institutional and environmental”.
The imposing sculpture is installed in Haozous Place, a sprawling sculpture park and museum devoted to the work of the artist’s late father, the renowned Modernist sculptor Allan Houser. But the piercing memorial dramatically contrasts with his father’s works, Haozous says, which often romanticised Indigenous life.