2025
From all the oldest daughters before me
2025
Glazed ceramics & incense
8 x 8 x 33cm
I am here – from all the oldest daughters before me.
A cheeky little princess from a long line of oldest daughters.
Though I am not where or who they were – I am an amalgamation of their stories and cultures passed down through mother-tongues.
A cheeky little princess from a long line of oldest daughters.
Though I am not where or who they were – I am an amalgamation of their stories and cultures passed down through mother-tongues.
An interpretation of ancestral veneration – a version concocted through the eyes of a cheeky little princess, all grown up, as she pulls from a hodgepodge of childhood cultural memories of playing tjongklak, ancestral prayer tables at ama’s and longevity bowls.
A rose-tinted frilly façade of homage hiding an innate fear of diasporic cultural blurring.
A rose-tinted frilly façade of homage hiding an innate fear of diasporic cultural blurring.