1 x 1 x 1 at FOST Gallery, featuring Jan Balquin | Bea Camacho | Jon Chan |
​Lavender Chang | Adeline Kueh | Phi Phi Oanh | Donna Ong
28 June - 26 July 2025

My practice explores the interstitial spaces between private memory and public remembrance, often embodied in the fragility of small, intimate objects. I am particularly interested in how sewing techniques carry stories and significance, especially the fabric rosette—a common domestic motif across Southeast Asia. Traditionally made from scrap fabric, rosettes adorned tablecloths, runners, blankets, or were sold for extra income. In my work, they serve both as aesthetic and formal symbols, and as ways to reclaim collaborative, intergenerational processes of care and resilience. 

My installation of Swiss voile rosettes (The Sun, The Moon and The Earth) and embroideries (Forgetting and Remembering series), challenge us to reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Taking heed from craft and wisdoms passed down through generations, these works examine the tensions between the gaps or limits of language. The rosettes in Gentle Persuasions (I,V, VIII) were crafted during the STPI residency using linen-blended handmade paper. This process involved carefully coaxing the paper to replicate fabric rosettes, referencing the laborious methods I witnessed in my mother’s and grandmother’s sewing practices during their quiet evenings. The paper used also bore prints enlarged from vintage patchwork squares they created between the 1960s and 1980s, bridging memory and materiality. These works draw on philosopher Watsuji Tetsurō’s concept of fūdo, highlighting social connection and the potential for shared humanity to inspire hope.