Loser on a Winning Streak, 2025. Acrylic on canvas with mixed media, 16 x 20”.
Loser on a Winning Streak is a painting made to commemorate Manhattan Chinatown’s resistance to New York City’s practices of over-policing and carceral expansion. In Columbus Park, residents play basketball in the shadow of the “megajail” construction zone– a contested site where the city is erecting the world’s new tallest jail. The painted surface masks hand-collaged images of military imperialism, immigration police raids, martial arts cinema, American consumer culture, and the politicians responsible for implementing the borough-based jail plan that threatens to erode Chinatown’s people and history.
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Loser on a Winning Streak is a painting made to commemorate Manhattan Chinatown’s resistance to New York City’s practices of over-policing and carceral expansion. In Columbus Park, residents play basketball in the shadow of the “megajail” construction zone– a contested site where the city is erecting the world’s new tallest jail. The painted surface masks hand-collaged images of military imperialism, immigration police raids, martial arts cinema, American consumer culture, and the politicians responsible for implementing the borough-based jail plan that threatens to erode Chinatown’s people and history.
