In her work, pamela phatsimo sunstrum explores cultural residue: those things we carry that connect us to a place or to a person; those traces that are communicated -- as story, as ritual, as "mouth music"-- and are transmitted between bodies and across landscapes.

sunstrum's most recent work-- including drawings, collages, animations and installations-- feature an alter-ego the artist has invented named Asme. Asme embodies sunstrum's notion of simultaneous selves-- selves that are trans-cultural, trans-historical, trans-geographical. She/they are on a mythic quest: the hero in a ritual of self-mythology and fantastical autobiography.