Anne Chu’s work is impressed by a wide range of historical and cross-cultural influences. Her figurative sculptures possess an otherworldliness, transporting sense of time and place to create imaginary scenarios of suggested fantasy. Presented as a life-sized marionette, The Court Lady is a confrontation with the exotic and the theatrical. Her face a marred antique, her robe pristine and ageless, The Court Lady stands regal, drawing the viewer into a hypothetical realm that’s both archaic and serenely futuristic.