Yuling Chen is a Chinese Canadian new media artist. She is specialized in making works about beauty, labour and racial tensions using media archives exploring histories of new media art. She was born in 1990 on the southern small island of China, Hainan Island, in the city of Danzhou. When she was young she led a nomadic life moving from cities to cities, homes to homes and places to places. Thus, she had discovered her love in literature, obsession with identity, and eyes for design.
Cotton Socks
Poem
Ladies in black had too much to bear
They shopped on the newspaper for
Cotton socks embellished with
Trinkets and jewels
I strived to make a flowery pattern on
My hands
It is a beautiful reminder
Of marriageable ladies in the parlours
Iced coffee soaked cotton socks’
Edges, that’s hard to believe
Arabic spoken like bureaus’
Languages.
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