今 Ima, 2024
Crocheted wild silk
35cmW x 80cmH

During my one-month residency in Kyoto, I spent 2 hours every morning crocheting this piece without any patterns as a meditation; a primitive ‘diary’. A certain square is filled, marking a certain moment. That moment is unimportant; it simply meant ‘now’— the time of creation. Yet it will forever be remembered with this mark. Before, the piece was whole; perfect. Now there is a ‘before’, and ‘after’; a ‘left’ and a ‘right’; blank and filled, positive and negative. Suddenly, a story appears. When does the moment come for change? The answer is simply, 'Now'. When you decide.

*This work was partially inspired by the idea of a ‘Persian Flaw’, the ancient tale of how Persian carpet makers deliberately made a mistake to show they were imperfect humans and not perfect, like God.

What You Could Be, 2022
Crocheted and melted nylon
45cmW x 85cmH

The title of this work was inspired by the novel ‘All The Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr, which suggests that we are haunted by the potential of what is lost.

Lace personally speaks to me as a symbol of a mother’s love. Vulnerable, beautiful and pristine, lace doilies are the mark of a mother’s presence in the house, though often placed in less than honourable places. In a way, we take these handmade lace pieces for granted, much like we do to our mothers, as if they will always be waiting for us in our family home whenever we return.

The deliberate destruction of a fragile and defenceless object created stitch by stitch by hand seems almost sacrilegious; yet it is reflective of the relationship many daughters, and personally myself, share with our mothers.

The ability of crochet to forgive— unravelling without leaving any traces— contributes to the heartbreak of it being destroyed. Akin to that loss we feel when a loved one leaves the physical realm, that sudden disappearance of a presence we have grown used to makes us clutch at the evidence of them having ever been around.

800mmW x 900mmH
2019
Nylon yarn (Shaw Contract), Wire mesh

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An explorative work crocheted in a single piece with no concrete plan in mind, this island was shaped as it went along over a period of three months. Experimenting with different crochet stitches, the island is brought to life with ‘geological’ landforms, inspired by the artist’s treks on forgotten islands she once visited.