Echoes of the Wind , 2024

Porcelain, variable size


Echoes of the Wind  consists of six porcelain works modelled on documents that structured the lives of the artist’s parents. Two pieces reproduce their passports—her father’s Chinese passport and her mother’s Thai passport—glazed in the precise colours of the original covers and marked with gold emblems. Another work is based on her father’s work permit, rendered with restrained glazing to reflect its bureaucratic austerity. A fourth piece takes the form of his Alien Certification, a fragile paper more than sixty years old, bearing material traces of prolonged migration and settlement.

The final two porcelain sheets correspond to her parents’ death certificates. Intentionally left blank, their unmarked surfaces register silence, erasure, and the limits of administrative memory. In the absence of inscription, they invite reflection on what remains when official recognition ceases.

These porcelain documents operate as material translations of bureaucratic identity. Clay and stone become repositories of lived history, registering how movement, labour, and belonging are mediated through institutional systems. Through processes of transformation and fragility, the works examine how personal lives are continuously shaped, authorised, and ultimately destabilised by documentation.

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