Author: Chang, PattyIntegrating video projection, photography, sculpture, publication and performance into one expansive body of work, Los Angeles-based Patty Chang (born 1972) examines the complex way stories develop through geography, history, cultural mythology, fiction and personal experience. The artist's book is a personal, associative, narrative meditation on mourning, caregiving and landscape. Accompanying her exhibition of the multiyear project A Wandering Lake at the Queens Museum that was in part inspired by turn-of-the-century colonial explorer Sven Hedin's book Wandering Lake (1938) – which tells the story of a migrating body of water in the Chinese desert – this book alludes to the loss of Chang's father, as well as her pregnancy and the birth of her son. It further combines Chang's writings and travel photographs with historic and theoretical text excerpts as well as photographs of her sculptures and watercolors.ISBN 9780998632636. Dancing Foxes Press/Queens Museum. pb. 96 pages. 90 colour ills. 19 x 24.8 cm.available to order
