We Traverse These Remains explores memory, untold histories, and cultural identity, shaped by my experience as a second-generation immigrant living between Australian and Singaporean contexts. This body of work foregrounds family photo albums, which I approach as forms of cultural currency that shape relationships and social capital.

 This series draws on manipulated photographs of my family and ancestors, which are torn, painted over, collaged, and stitched into. These interventions deliberately degrade the images, echoing the fragmentary nature of memory and culture for migrants. 

Grids and knotted threads recur throughout the work, reflecting a desire to draw connections between past and present. The works incorporate batik imagery central to Singaporean Peranakan craft. Peranakan culture fuses Malay, Chinese and European influences, highlighting how trade, migration, colonisation and slavery in Southeast Asia have shaped local culture. Elements of embroidery reference the complex historical relationship between women and textile labour.