Update from Elena Yu

This month I was in California for the entire month for a project I am working on at UC Santa Barbara with their Ethnic and Gender Studies Library Collection and the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. After conducting research, a workshop, and meetings on campus for a week, I drove up to Oakland, California where I had a three week studio residency at Real Time and Space. I started a new body of work related to my research in at UCSB. I started many different material experiments that I plan to include in my final Incubator exhibition this June. One of my favorite discoveries have been “stamp weaving,” a technique I discovered in which strategically placed rubber stamping on paper results in the illusion of woven cloth. I sourced the rubber stamps from the abandoned belongings found in former Ethnic and Gender Studies Collection staff offices, which the university library is currently cleaning out to convert into group study spaces.