Karen Tam, Refuse to eat our bitterness, 2021, embroidery on satin, 118.1 x 45.7 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal. Photo credit: Campbell River Art Gallery

Kristina Cranston, Armour Vest for female warrior, 2012, Elk hide, vintage Chinese coins, collection of the artist. Photo credit: Campbell River Art Gallery.

Karen Tam, Coin-Suit, 2021, Imitation Chinese coins, nylon satin cord, velvet, and Isolofoam, 20.5 x 139 x 63 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal. Photo credit: Campbell River Art Gallery.

Karen Tam, Chinese Arch on Pender St. (Vancouver), 1912, 2020, pencil on photocopy paper, 21.59 x 27.94 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal. Photo credit: Karen Tam.

Karen Tam, Victoria Chinese Public School, June 5, 2020, 2020, from the Ruinscape Drawings series
Pencil on Strathmore, 30.48 x 22.86 cm, private collection. Photo credit: Karen Tam.

Karen Tam, After the 1907 Chinatown Riots in Vancouver, 2020, from the Ruinscape Drawings series, pencil on Strathmore, 22.86 x 30.48 cm, private collection. Photo credit: Karen Tam.

Karen Tam, Le Parc de la Pagode (Montréal), 1978, 2020, from the Ruinscape Drawings series Pencil on photocopy paper, 27.94 x 21.59 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal. Photo credit: Karen Tam.

Marquis of Lorne Arch, 1882, photographer unknown, Collection of the Nanaimo Museum (NAN_R5-1).

Marquis of Lorne Arch, 1882, photographer unknown, Collection of the Nanaimo Museum (NAN_R5-1).

Marquis of Lorne Arch, 1882, photographer unknown, Collection of the Nanaimo Museum (NAN_R5-1).

Karen Tam, Refuse to eat our bitterness, 2021, embroidery on satin, 118.1 x 45.7 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal. Photo credit: Campbell River Art Gallery

Karen Tam, the chrysanthemum has opened twelve times (Banner), 2020
Velvet, glitter on canvas, fringe tassels, 59 x 142 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal. Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid. nd early twentieth centuries.