Les femmes en route

"Women-on-the-go" or Women Travellers

Image sources: ink jet figures taken from Thai postage stamps, magazine cut-outs of diamonds and flowers,

Ruby Journey 2001-2002

This Window on Jamaica Project at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Inc. was an installation about the migration of Asian women in labor industry. The women are travellers who are represented by ink jet figures taken from 1970's Thai postage stamps. Each figure is placed inside a ruby gemstone.

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Image sources: Ink jet cut-outs print on clear self-adhesive adhered on 3 plastic sheets, 75" x 41" x 5"

Fever Series 1999-2002

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"Third world and feminist perspectives are present in Skowmon Hastanan's witty, but disturbing, Red Fever. Conflating the diagrammatic plans of slave ships with contemporary passenger jets, Hastanan highlights the spread of the virus through the tourist sex trade" - by Virginia MacKenny, South Africa, January 2000

Includes:

Installation of Red Fever

Ship Fever

Pageant Fever

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Skowmon Hastanan on the web:

Early Childhood Center, P.S. 228, Queens

Orbis Venustas - Float Glass Painting, 2001

Center For Photography at Woodstock

Pageant Fever Economy Class Beauty 2000