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Jennifer Vanderpool @jennifervanderpool.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"Art is the highest power of falsehood, it magnifies the ‘world as error’, it sanctifies the lie; the will to deception is turned into a superior ideal.’ (Deleuze 1983: 102)." Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 @bramleytweets.bsky.social @paalbuquerque.bsky.social @huongngo.bsky.social #workingclass #labor

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Hương Ngô @huongngo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I've been wanting to do something for a long time with my nursing log from when Khải was a baby. It's overwhelming and breathtaking! The yellow areas are when I was nursing... nearly ALL THE TIME! This is his first two months of his life. Hoping to make it into drawings and embroidery.

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Hương Ngô @huongngo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sundials (Morning Glory) My parents gardened their whole lives, before it was cool. They grew out of necessity and to preserve memory and culture. One day, hopefully, Americans will catch up to ancestral knowledge held so deep. The unfixed Van Dyke changes with time, the silver stays the same.

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Hương Ngô @huongngo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Here are a few circuits made with components from the factories where my parents worked. My family and many other refugee, immigrant, brown, and black families built what is now Silicon Valley and the technological economic powerhouse of the US. On view now at the MCA-SB Satellite Space.

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Hương Ngô @huongngo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Sometimes the random stream of words that comes out of my 5-year-old is pure poetry: I remember. I remember nothing. I remember nothing except you. I remember nothing. I know nothing so I fart.

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Hương Ngô @huongngo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I got goosebumps looking through this catalog of the 50-year anniversary exhibition Vico's Spiral at the Center for Book Arts, which includes my five volume artist book, Reap the Whirlwind, produced with @forthebirdstrapped.bsky.social. Thank you CBA, artists' book makers, and readers. 🤓📚

Pink book titled "Vico's Spiral: Half Century of Artists' Books," on astroturf background.

Book opened to spread showing thermochromic book "Reap the Whirlwind," by artist Hương Ngô.

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Hương Ngô @huongngo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I joined my university lecturer union recently. It's not perfect, but organized labor is going to be an important bulwark against exploitative practices. Don't have a union? Get inspired by many workers who have unionized recently, from Starbucks to Amazon to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Hương Ngô @huongngo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hi, I'm Hương Ngô, an interdisciplinary artist and educator at UCSB. I'm currently working on a project using electronic components from the factories where my parents worked. I'm activating them here using a simple oscillator and power amp, then letting chance take over.

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