Shining Seas

About

In this latest iteration of a project now going into its twelfth year, Taiwan-born, Thailand-raised Lin moves past the idiosyncratic mistranslations between the English and Mandarin versions of "Moby Dick" that informed her earlier works and draws inspiration from the multiple dimensions of relevance between Melville’s text, current cultural themes and circumstances, and her own life. She also explores some of the lesser known themes in the book, such as homoeroticism, and in particular, the multiculturalism inherent in the text through references to overlapping literary sources from around the globe.