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Did I Do Something Wrong? (2025)

Installation with various woods, paper, crayons, paint markers, and miscellaneous objects. 

Did I Do Something Wrong is an installation with various woods, a cabinet door, crayons, paint and paint markers, and miscellaneous items adorned to childhood. A piece about how childhood neglect leads to children misconstruing their realities, not knowing whether they're loved or what expectations their adults have of them without guidance. I was kind of trying to discuss how adults in life lead the narrative for the child's perception of life, and if they're not there, what will teach the child that they are valued?

In relation to the process and meaning of this piece:

I sourced a used a cabinet door, I found a baby shirt at Habitat for Humanity, a children’s book, and some princess wall decals and went from there. I decided to create a small room, within an installation space of a small room. Enclosing the space came with the themes of broken childhood and sad nostalgia. I painted only the inside of the room because the rawness of the wood and screws brought that feeling of brokenness out. I only utilized scrap wood, representing what neglected children are given, if scraps remain for them. I used crayons to draw on the walls of the room, and pieces of scrap paper to draw on. I wrote things that I thought as a kid being in those spaces, things I went through. I purposefully made the room have cracks and openings, so people were invited to look in if they felt compelled, but also blocked people out if they did not want to be part of it. I found the pink overpowering, so drawing overtop with other colours was to drown that tone out. I wanted to make this as cohesive as possible while still pertaining to the rawness of the emotions being brought out by this work. I put a teddy bear into a jar of dried up white paint to remove his facial features. I had used the stickers from the princess wall decals and scratched the eyes out, representing a lack of identity I had as a child that I feel still haunts me to this day.

[matthewfelixsun]

DSCN8983 - Unauthorized Exhibition at SFMOMA by Matthew Felix Sun Via Flickr: Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an "Unauthorized SFMOMA Show", which allows people to upload images of artworks to SFMOMA website, and "all works are immediately accepted, each submission automatically constituting an Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show on view at SFMOMA via the same website ( sfmoma.show ). Each exhibition starts when a work is submitted and ends when a new work is submitted."

The last piece I posted in that May day was Stringed White Dresses — an Installation, the very first piece in my continuing series of installation or assemblage employing paper as main medium.

Using some rather square and unyielding origami white dresses, pasted onto twine, which was in turn attached to a wooden frame, I created a subtle contrast between order and disarray, manifested in the rather random formation of the white dresses. To enhance the contrast and drama, I affixed to the frame an abstract ink drawing - mostly in black, with dashes of muted red.

The location for my viewing was in the lobby, overlooking Alexander Calder's 1963 installation, Untitled, which also featuring a series of similar objects on wire or strings.

[matthewfelixsun]

DSCN8989 - Unauthorized Exhibition at SFMOMA (m) by Matthew Felix Sun Via Flickr: Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an "Unauthorized SFMOMA Show", which allows people to upload images of artworks to SFMOMA website, and "all works are immediately accepted, each submission automatically constituting an Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show on view at SFMOMA via the same website ( sfmoma.show ). Each exhibition starts when a work is submitted and ends when a new work is submitted."

The last piece I posted in that May day was Stringed White Dresses — an Installation, the very first piece in my continuing series of installation or assemblage employing paper as main medium.

Using some rather square and unyielding origami white dresses, pasted onto twine, which was in turn attached to a wooden frame, I created a subtle contrast between order and disarray, manifested in the rather random formation of the white dresses. To enhance the contrast and drama, I affixed to the frame an abstract ink drawing - mostly in black, with dashes of muted red.

The location for my viewing was in the lobby, overlooking Alexander Calder's 1963 installation, Untitled, which also featuring a series of similar objects on wire or strings.

[matthewfelixsun]

DSCN8984 - Unauthorized Exhibition at SFMOMA (m) by Matthew Felix Sun Via Flickr: Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an "Unauthorized SFMOMA Show", which allows people to upload images of artworks to SFMOMA website, and "all works are immediately accepted, each submission automatically constituting an Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show on view at SFMOMA via the same website ( sfmoma.show ). Each exhibition starts when a work is submitted and ends when a new work is submitted."

The last piece I posted in that May day was Stringed White Dresses — an Installation, the very first piece in my continuing series of installation or assemblage employing paper as main medium.

Using some rather square and unyielding origami white dresses, pasted onto twine, which was in turn attached to a wooden frame, I created a subtle contrast between order and disarray, manifested in the rather random formation of the white dresses. To enhance the contrast and drama, I affixed to the frame an abstract ink drawing - mostly in black, with dashes of muted red.

The location for my viewing was in the lobby, overlooking Alexander Calder's 1963 installation, Untitled, which also featuring a series of similar objects on wire or strings.

[matthewfelixsun]

DSCN8952 - Unauthorized Exhibition at SFMOMA by Matthew Felix Sun Via Flickr: Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an "Unauthorized SFMOMA Show", which allows people to upload images of artworks to SFMOMA website, and "all works are immediately accepted, each submission automatically constituting an Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show on view at SFMOMA via the same website ( sfmoma.show ). Each exhibition starts when a work is submitted and ends when a new work is submitted."

My second piece Niobe was about this mythological princess and mother of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters (the Niobids), whose boast of her large family and jeer at goddess Leto, who had only two children, the powerful twins Apollo and Artemis, resulted in unbearable tragedy. I used two shades of origami dresses to represent the male and female figures of the queen and her slaughtered sons and daughters.

The gallery for my display featured works by one of my greatest heroes, Anselm Kiefer, who also employed unconventional auxiliary media, and often concerned human suffering and struggle, often through retelling of ancient myths.

[matthewfelixsun]

DSCN8963 - Margarethe, 1981, Anselm Kiefer, SFMOMA by Matthew Felix Sun Via Flickr: Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an "Unauthorized SFMOMA Show", which allows people to upload images of artworks to SFMOMA website, and "all works are immediately accepted, each submission automatically constituting an Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show on view at SFMOMA via the same website ( sfmoma.show ). Each exhibition starts when a work is submitted and ends when a new work is submitted."

My second piece Niobe was about this mythological princess and mother of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters (the Niobids), whose boast of her large family and jeer at goddess Leto, who had only two children, the powerful twins Apollo and Artemis, resulted in unbearable tragedy. I used two shades of origami dresses to represent the male and female figures of the queen and her slaughtered sons and daughters.

The gallery for my display featured works by one of my greatest heroes, Anselm Kiefer, who also employed unconventional auxiliary media, and often concerned human suffering and struggle, often through retelling of ancient myths.

[matthewfelixsun]

DSCN8947 - Unauthorized Exhibition at SFMOMA by Matthew Felix Sun Via Flickr: Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an "Unauthorized SFMOMA Show", which allows people to upload images of artworks to SFMOMA website, and "all works are immediately accepted, each submission automatically constituting an Unauthorized SFMOMA Solo Show on view at SFMOMA via the same website ( sfmoma.show ). Each exhibition starts when a work is submitted and ends when a new work is submitted."

My second piece Niobe was about this mythological princess and mother of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters (the Niobids), whose boast of her large family and jeer at goddess Leto, who had only two children, the powerful twins Apollo and Artemis, resulted in unbearable tragedy. I used two shades of origami dresses to represent the male and female figures of the queen and her slaughtered sons and daughters.

The gallery for my display featured works by one of my greatest heroes, Anselm Kiefer, who also employed unconventional auxiliary media, and often concerned human suffering and struggle, often through retelling of ancient myths.