2020 - 2021, photographic series, postcards on voile, six inkjet prints on photo matte paper.
Previously exhibited in February 2021 at The Walls Art Space in Miami, Gold Coast, as a part of Anthem ARI’s first group exhibition RATIONAL IDENTITY. Images courtesy the artist.
between oceans is a collection of 22 postcards sent from a father to a mother and a daughter over 22 years of life, sewn into a piece of sheer fabric, accompanied by a series of six photographs of performative actions shot in coastal New South Wales. Sent from places around the world including Japan, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Australia and the United States, the postcards are small reminders of thoughts, sweet prayers and love. between oceans is a reminder of the many distances that stand between us, distances between oceans, between borders and between families. Yet it is also a reminder of how familial love traverses these spaces and how these tenuous bonds may be stretched, pulled and blown in the wind, but never broken.
Artist statement, “The voile and cards act as an ephemeral ode, my own makeshift prayer flags that have remained tucked away between books, pinned onto walls and locked away in drawers until last year when travel between distances abruptly ceased. The postcards have become relics of my tiny universes caressed and nurtured by many hands. It has been really formative to revisit some of these experiences, especially when there’s been distances enforced upon families due to border restrictions. The work has been so far, for me, a space to recollect memories and an ode to how familial love can potentially extend across boundaries.”