Text Works

Laundry List, 2006, ink, legal paper, monofilament,  30 x 30 x
		  12 inches / 76 x 76 x 30 cm

Laundry List, 2006, ink, legal paper, monofilament, 30 x 30 x 12 inches / 76 x 76 x 30 cm


Investigating the limits of language and legibility as a metaphor for existential anxiety.

How can one livea meaningful life when daily life is so mundane? I explore mundane words and how illegible masses of texts occupy space. I work with themes of failure, disappointment, sentimentality, sarcasm and anxiety.

Caption: Christine Wong Yap, various text works, 2006, mixed media (papercuts, installations, drypoint, collagraph, reduction woodcut), dimensions variable