Color Flows on Liberty Tree Plaza

Storefront Window Mural

‘HERE, NOW’ BY ASHLEY JIN

Here, now is a mural installation that celebrates the cycle of transitions – seasons, generations, and places, that make the present moment possible.

A traditional Chinese scroll painting serves as the backdrop to vignette moments of Chinatown community members engaging in play, gathering, gardening, and everyday experiences in open third spaces. Trees are used as a motif to denote the transition between old and new, and a massive ginkgo tree is depicted as its leaves fall, six young trees dot the hills in the background, representing the new tree plantings for the future permanent Chinatown BPL branch.

This simple mural demonstrates how common experience represents care: people choosing to be active participants in their community and unafraid to take up space together. 

Overhead Fabric Installation

‘BETWEEN WATER + LAND’ (WHITE FLOWER) /  水陆之间  (白花) BY LANI ASUNCIÓN

A transmedia installation that draws from the Filipino ritual practice hilom ᜑᜒᜎᜓᜋ᜔ to heal, and the concept of kapwa grounded in the pre-colonial Philippine ideology of “shared identity” or “shared humanity.” 

Informed by the poem 之間 from the Taiwanese poet Chen Yu-hong, it references the nuances of the space between everything, the ma or jiān referring to both spatial distance and time. The White Flower 白花 prints, made by the sun and white flower oil traditionally used on aching bodies, the flag banners will flow above Liberty Tree Plaza as healing, protection, and ancestral remembrance. 

Vinyl Wrap

‘CHINATOWN WORKERS’ BY IVY WONG

An installation inspired by Wen Ti Tsen’s “Chinatown Worker Statues” project, it memorializes the restaurant worker, garment worker, laundryman, and grandmother to commemorate and pay tribute to workers who performed historically essential labor that provided livelihood in the Chinese immigrant community. 

Items used by these workers are ink-printed and digitized to physically represent everyday care expressed in this community, both past and present.

Items include a bamboo steamer, a ball of twine, fruit mesh, incense, grains of rice, bamboo leaves, woven cloth, a frog button, and a piece of embroidery—all referencing simple cultural acts of sharing, mending, and offering. This design illustrates that anyone is capable of care, and even small gestures are significant.