Kira Lauring



Rooted





Risograph accordion book with pop-out, 2019.

Rooted maps the exploitation of Chinese bachelor societies in California’s railroad industry to the extracted labor of male ginkgo tree populations in American cities, tracing a legacy of Asian American resilience. 

Rooted is available for purchase via email and for viewing at the Artists Books Collection at the W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.