{"id":6117,"date":"2016-11-14T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsincerity.wpengine.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2023-05-22T05:27:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:27:24","slug":"xian-mei-qius-photographs-taste-like-visual-candies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/xian-mei-qius-photographs-taste-like-visual-candies\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Multiculturalism Through Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xian Mei Qiu is an LA-based artist who reveals her multicultural upbringing through her work. Her newest project, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/meixianqiu.com\/selected-works\/let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom\/\">Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom<\/a><\/em>, is a distillation of just this, speaking to the symbols of the past and how we can use them to look toward the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It deals with the issue of identity as something that we create, and how others perceive that in a cultural sense. Especially as urban people, we\u2019ve become so removed from any type of indigenous existence. It leads me to recreate my own fantasy of cultural identity,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rise up! Go take a peek at her <a href=\"http:\/\/meixianqiu.com\/\">website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xian Mei Qiu is an LA-based artist who reveals her multicultural upbringing through her work. 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