Eavesdropping Presents: Ghost Wife by Angel Lam

Award winning composer/storyteller Angel Lam tells a new story with her original music and visual projections. Through years of research and recent visits to China she discovered a forgotten diary that chronicles an adventurous journey in a culture now lost to time.

In a merciless land, a young man saved the fate of a young girl who died three days ago... Based on a true story, an untold secret from 1920's China comes alive through a new presentation in the Chinese tea house style of storytelling.

In collaboration with visual artist and set designer Catherine Lan. Catherine Lan's "Magic Window I" is a faux fur relief painting created based on "Ghost Wife". Inspired by the Qing dynasty architectural ornaments, the furry fabric is being cut into a lotus shaped window frame, juxtaposing with paints that changes colors when viewed from different angle.

Catherine Lan is a visual artist who utilizes fashion elements to explore themes of female identity, fantasy, and desire. The recent fairy-tale series use candy-like colored materials: faux fur, pearl beadings, glitter, lace, rhinestone, acrylic. She cuts the fur or collage them into a dream-like fantasy. These soft relief paintings are deconstructions and reinterpretations of classical narrative characters: "Ghost Wife", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Snow White".