This project began while I was studying in London, the first time I had lived outside Asia which combines portraits, still lifes, and quiet scenes, shaped by my perspective as an outsider.
I pay attention to cultural dissonance, longing for home, and the small ways relocation can change everyday habits and deeper patterns of thought. I often observe with a distance, resisting the pressure to blend in, yet my emotions still settle onto ordinary people, objects, and rooms. This uneasy balance between detachment and attachment reflects a wider Gen Z experience of displacement in a globalised world.
The work returns to one question: where is home, and how to miss it?
Summer tenderness, in a room somewhere in continental Europe never made for heat above 35 degrees. A Leo friend’s birthday. Two stories of heartbreak, while two others, held by love, tried to pour some of what they had received back into them. Still not knowing where to go. Still not knowing what it means to migrate. This is where we are not merely a predicament, but a condition.
