Maya Lu
Maya Lu is a Chinese American artist and storyteller based between Beijing and California. She is a graduate of UCLA Design Media Arts and is the Communications and Publications Manager at UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center & Press. She has written and designed for Kaya Press, Hammer Museum, UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, and Center for the Art of Performance. Maya is currently halfway through her quest to visit all the museums and botanical gardens in Los Angeles.
books
Double Happiness
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What comes before a language and a home, and what comes after—if “after” exists at all? The first title from Kaya Press’ Milkteeth imprint, Maya Lu’s Double Happiness meanders through family gardens and Chinese zodiac cycles, personal and political histories. Responding to a 对联 passed on from her mother, Lu tends to the lost and the inherited, “choosing what to dig out / and what to leave behind” between generations. Blending lyric vignettes and archival photos, Double Happiness weaves dreamlike between the ever-changing landscapes of Beijing and California and the strange gaps of what memory carries. Designed by Liz Li and printed with risograph at Tiny Splendor in Los Angeles, California.