Jackie Mack is a second-year master’s student at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, where she is currently pursuing her degree in decorative arts, design history, and material culture. She broadly studies art objects that were mobilized from and within Asia in the global maritime trade during the Early Modern period. This work mainly focuses on portable ceramics, wood, ivory, and metal pieces that reflect artistic exchanges across differing formal and technical traditions. She is especially interested in questioning the narrative of European superiority in global encounters during the “Age of Exploration” and the flawed methods that institutions have routinely used to interpret culturally multidimensional objects within the established historical canon. Her previous studies in Taipei and Beijing and her technical experience with various artistic processes have offered her the opportunity to approach these topics from a multilingual and multidisciplinary perspective.