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LIMEI LAI
Correspondence
Merridawn and Mei, a writer and a textile artist, both installation artists, are sharing their times and creating memories together,...

Meimei Lai
Oct 16, 20232 min read
Behavior
strategy of staying focus - eat sunflower seeds heal homesick - eat rice porridge in the morning stay away from loneliness - watch lots...

Meimei Lai
Jul 26, 20231 min read
Traveling
A road trip with N day 1 My eight years old daughter packed her own bag for five days road trip. First stop we dropped off tote bags at...

Meimei Lai
Jul 9, 20232 min read
Moments
3/13/2023 It is Monday early afternoon in March in Portland, raining. I am sitting in the café. A black mom and her daughter, both in...

Meimei Lai
Mar 13, 20232 min read
An In-between Person
In the world I live in, I am somehow an in-between person. Dawn, I cry for the first sunlight that kicks away my loneliness. yet, the...

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Those Rainy Days
7/4/2020 55-72 cloudy It's July 4th and I couldn't connect to it. 10:35 pm and fireworks everywhere. Stopped what I was doing, called my...

Meimei Lai
Jul 4, 20203 min read


Little Rainbows in life
There are little things in everyday life I feel, I see, and I look forward to that makes my life worthy and valuable. Little thoughts...

Meimei Lai
Oct 14, 20191 min read


Fabric Works
My works are showing at school till 22nd. Check them out if you are there. PNCA

Meimei Lai
Oct 7, 20191 min read


Look Hard, Look Hard
While Brianna is hiking in forest park this weekend, a bottle is laying next to a wild ginger plant under the heart shape aromatic leaves...

Meimei Lai
Oct 7, 20197 min read
A Life of Making
What is art? A pretty ceramic tea set is art, a well-designed building is art, a beautifully embroidered skirt is art, a water-shaped...

Meimei Lai
Jun 9, 20196 min read
Crossing the border: From Xingjiang into Tibet
Taklamakan means “to leave alone/out/behind.” One will surely feel left alone in this empire of sand and sun, the biggest desert in...

Meimei Lai
Jun 8, 20198 min read
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