Jennifer Wen Ma

100 Meters of Dodo

Ink on Mylar

1 x 100 meters

2003

A continuous drawing of 100 meters in length recounts Dodo's life activities and stories. Painted in Chinese ink on semi transparent Mylar roll, and viewed as a traditional hand roll, the drawings are lyrical and fluid, in the fashion of a tender memoir. Like the way memory tricks our brain, the images are can be opaque or murky, lucid or faint, at times repeating themselves in various and contradicting ways.