Ghosts

Ghosts, 2024, timber wall shelf - 300cm long, postcard, passport photograph, copper etching.

Ghosts draws on family archives to explore home, identity and belonging within diasporic communities. Three personal objects are arranged along a thin wall-mounted shelf, forming a timeline.

The copper etching depicts a construction site built on the land where my grandmother’s home once stood in Singapore. Beside it is a postcard sent by my mother to her parents, addressed to this home that no longer exists. The shift between Chinese and English reflects the complexities of language, inheritance and communication in Singapore, a former British colony. On the other side rests my mother’s passport photograph—an image of movement and possibility as well as control and regulation,

Together, these objects speak to displacement, memory and communities in flux, evoking dislocation, loss and nostalgia.