"So can the notion of concept be forced into the work? How can reflexivity be imbricated in this kind of initiation?

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First, Ong keeps to task with devotion, almost obsessively crocheting to give birth to works beyond human scale and to fill cavernous white cubes with her ever efflorescent forms...

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Second, Ong explores the potential of her body to perform...

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Third, Ong collects everyday things that she picks up in her sojourns and weaves them into her work.

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...the fiber art of Ong enlivens the space because it bears a multitude of materials; and it shelters the body because it evokes the hyperbolic world. This is an exemplary convergence: the body dwells in strands of memory, taken on like habit with wistfulness and defiance. 

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- Patrick D. Flores, Ph.D.