The Gold Rush-era Chinese cemetery in Nevada City, CA. is situated within the grounds of a former Gold Rush theme park. This drawing was made in preparation for a larger drawing, Passageway for the Graves of Those Who Art Away From Home, part of the Lexicon for Extracted series (2015-16).

Ranu Mukherjee’s body of work includes hybrid films and installations  drawing and painting, printed textiles, and projects involving choreography, sound design, book making, procession, pirate radio and the creation of neologisms and avatars. She was a co-founder of the collective media artist 0rphan drift (1994). Solo museum projects include Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times, Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Sonoma, CA (2018); Extracted, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2016); Phantasmagoric, Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), and Telling Fortunes, San Jose Museum of Art (2012). Her work is in the collections of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, NY; Kadist Foundation, NY and Paris; the Oakland Museum of California; and the San Jose Museum of Art.