Beginning with his academic training in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, for a long time, Daniel Chen painted figurative images of grain fields under the highly saturated golden sun of his native Alabama; his mother’s kitchen that gave him a sense of warmth and belonging; and the gaze directed to his own body as an Asian male. He speaks of those early paintings as a healing process through his personal life—a song that commemorates the sentiments as a child of a first-generation immigrant family.
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