RMG Brenda Joy Lem: Homage to the Heart art artwork plates and two flipbooks

artwork plates and two flipbooks

The book is a constellation of symbolic forms

relationships

As with all early Chinese immigrants

• Designed by Simone Diamond (Coast Salish)

RMG Brenda Joy Lem: Homage to the Heart art artwork plates and two flipbooksCatalogue for Brenda Joy Lems exhibition. The book addresses themes of memory, oral history, spirituality, and the enduring heart, as the artist explores her family history and the threads that connect generations. Lem recounts fragments from the history of her familys immigration from China and the hand laundry business they operated in the 1930s, layered over family and archival images. As with all early Chinese immigrants, Lems grandparents came