Charlene Shih

Charlene Shih

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      • Take me home
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      • Self Portrait Series
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Inheritance #22
Before My Time
Charlene Shih
2026

Based on a found photograph of the artist’s great-grandparents, this work reconstructs a generation known only through imagery and imagination. The formal, symmetrical composition—centered around traditional tea service and a floral arrangement—honors the dignity of ancestors the artist never met. By rendering this distant history in ink and gold, the piece explores "inherited memory" and the creative process of bridging the gap between the present and a lost era.


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