Pamela Grace Yang Rawden

1995

Born in Shandong Jinana, China

Lives and works in pittsburgh, pa

My sensitivity to materials is both conscious and unconscious; something familiar becoming unfamiliar. What holds in a material buries another. Somewhere in between, the between blurs; how a perceived memory shifts, then alters, as a ghost itself lives in a state of receding. When a feeling emerges, my familiarity with material triggers my memory; whether my memory plays through a moment of trauma, violence, or a sense of care, my thinking process follows. A natural order flows. An arrangement shapes to its color within time.

When I was found and brought to the orphanage, I had a growing tumor resided on my right-side eye. After the removal, I now live with my one blind eye. Following through my adoption and came to the U.S. at an age 11, I was found with a brain tumor soon after. The unpredicted happenings allowed me to lean in. An aura of feelings sits, stands, and walks. Something uncanny feeling creates to one’s life existence.