Through collected lists, prose, and archival and family photographs, Clare Yow reflects on her inheritance of Chinese-Canadian history marred by racist policies, caregiving during the pandemic and a genocide, and how language is learned and develops meaning. The book’s double-fold cover memorializes her ancestors via her mother’s lineage and photographer Lillian Ho Wong (born in 1895 in Vancouver’s Chinatown). Also included is a folded poster with a layered text artwork (“Prohibited Classes Palimpsest”) derived directly from the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act. Selected artworks are from the series “The sun will always set.“

ac·cu·mu·la·tions is part of the series of artist books, Undercurrents and Folds, in the 2024 Reading the Migration Library project, hosted by Lois Klassen and Deanne Achong.

Publications are available in a mail art exchange with Light Factory Publications, and by book/zine exchange or donation to a local organization at RML launch events.