Designed to Remember. Built to Resist.
Social Justice Timeline & Stereotypes Installation
Wing Luke Museum – Honoring Our Journey
This two-part installation anchors Honoring Our Journey, a permanent exhibit at the Wing Luke Museum that centers the lived histories of Asian Pacific Islander Native Hawaiian (APINH) communities through design, storytelling, and critical reflection.
The Social Justice Timeline stretches across a full gallery wall, immersing visitors in over a century of milestones—legislation, resistance, migration, and community power—layered through archival photographs, historic documents, and translucent panels of color. Designed as both a chronology and a call to consciousness, it invites visitors to reckon with past injustices while honoring the generations who shaped a path forward.
Across the gallery, the Stereotypes installation interrupts the space with a sculptural wall built from stained wood slats, cut with the word STEREOTYPES in stenciled white spray paint. Artifacts and images embedded into the wall confront racial caricatures and commodified representations of APINH identity, transforming familiar objects into powerful critiques. Through this spatial intervention, harmful narratives are exposed—and reclaimed.
Together, these works use environmental storytelling and intentional design to turn gallery space into a site of remembrance, confrontation, and collective agency.
Client: Wing Luke Museum
Role: Exhibit Designer
Role: Exhibit Designer
