Jennifer Ling Datchuk has always had an interest in hair as a material. She states being raised in a Chinese household taught her that hair is a marker for beauty, and that individuals make assumptions about others based on its condition. In this piece, Datchuk explores the materiality of hair. “I always saw in my work how identity can be manufactured,” she said. “When I was in China, I met a hair dealer.” Hair dealers travel across rural China, buying ponytails that eventually make their way to wigs in the United States and Elsewhere “Think of how these were extensions of the body, commodifications of women. Women have been sold all over the world.”