Image credit: Tom Eichacker
is a parable of poems as well as the title of the part 1 project.
Sometimes, it’s ok not to speak human
The arrogant astronaut hare
Assasination of the ground squirrel king
I accept my fate, the wolf said calmly
The chosen raptor
Language of the salamander
Golden peacock who flies to the moon
Can you believe how intimately related anthropomorphic animal avatars are to your life.
Sicong Sui is a traveler and curator from the city of swallows, currently landed in Baltimore. Friends call him “leek holding duck” based on the sound of his name.
May 2021
Image credit: Showhei Higa
Project Anthropomorphic Animal Avatar explores interchangeable identities between humans and animals, extant in every culture, that help to tell the stories of our individual and collective journeys. Through art, design, scholarly texts, and poems, the featured creators embrace animal imagery as a means of conveying human misfortune, celebration, metamorphosis, adaptation, and happiness.
Part 1 of the project is titled:
The arrogant astronaut hare
Assassination of the ground squirrel king
I accept my fate, the wolf said calmly
The chosen raptor
Language of the salamander
Golden peacock who flies to the moon
Sometimes, it’s ok not to speak human
It consists of a multi-volume print and online publication featuring digital and traditional media artworks and prose poems by Happy (Huang, Pei-Yu), Opal Zyncren Pence, and Sicong Sui.
Part 2 comprises an in-person gallery exhibition that will be staged in 2021.
The project lives on and evolves;
they welcome future collaboration.
Contact us for more information: ssuimica@gmail.com
Current Collaborating Artists
happy (Huang, Pei-Yu)
Opal Zyncren Pence
Illustrators
Tom Eichacker and Shohei Higa
Curator Sicong Sui
Designer Lindy Zhu
Coding Yitao Xiong
Created with support from Curatorial Practice MFA,
Maryland Institute College of Art
Project AAA
The mystery and magic of the world occurs when you can see life in
every object. Your heart will lead you into this world.
Serendipity World is a multimedia experience that includes furniture, a publication, and a web game.
happy (Huang, Pei-Yu) is based in Taipei, Taiwan, and active in this current era under the name “Happy."
「happy」is an ideal state as well as the artist’s best friend in the world. Her work mainly explores the chemistry between happiness and details of daily life.
May 2021
Zyncren Pence is a multidisciplinary artist living on unceded Tongva land: Los
Angeles, California. Often found tattooing or curled in a sunny
spot, Opal vacillates between
being a hollow object and a dragon.
OPAL
May 2021
A visual poem written by a hollow object, Transparency addresses fluidity within perception and identity. The object and the project are funhouse mirrors reflecting and shattering until they hatch into feeling flesh. Transparency cries twin mourning howls for those lost to generational trauma. It reeks of draconic pleasure: chaos and flaming destruction into fresh, hot earth.
May 2021
TRANSPARENCY
