Jasmine Huang (b. Sacramento, CA) grew up in the suburbs of Memphis, TN. She cites her upbringing in the South as a core part of her education and likes bald cypresses and the heat. Di Xia documents her family’s story, in the past when her parents lived in Beijing during the tumultuous year of 1989, and now, split between a small suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, and her current home of Brooklyn.
Using a mixture of ongoing photographs taken since 2020, scans of old family photos, and pieces of writing, Jasmine Huang attempts to craft a nonlinear retelling of her household’s narrative as it delves into language and loss.