My body of work derived from family snapshots from my family as my childhood story was differ from others. I come from a broken family where I grew up without a father figure. I was raised by a loving single mother with my siblings. Honestly, knowing the family background is always quite difficult for me as I always question about where I came from, about the role of me in my family drama, the conflict in the family, questioning on my family tree and about being formed as an individual. Sometimes I feel like I know about my family, but I don’t exactly know everything about it. It is undeniable that I still want to have a complete family just like others and wonder how my life will be different. Still, I dealt with the situation by accepting what I have presently,

I started to do a lot of investigation on my family history and background by tracing back the history and looking for the missing link through the pictures that I have gathered. I came across my family archives and photo albums while cleaning the storage room. Going through the photo albums made me become more eager to know about my family background history and made me want to know the stories behind the pictures.

I started to gather all the family albums and do some searching around. The family photographs that I have gathered have become so much more than a data for me. It became a form of the artwork itself. The photos itself questions how these photos shape my memories and identity besides allowing me to understand, to remember and to know the event that happened in the past.

My idea is to reshape these images of the family members by stitching the photographs itself that serves as a soothing and reconciling tool for me to address the sense of the family members being a stranger or anonymous. My body of work is about accepting something unwelcome in the family drama, also looking at these photos made me start to think about the issue of wanting to know who I am, where I come from and what makes me who I am. For me, it is interesting to look into the process of my chosen medium which is the photographs itself, blended together with the sewing. Combining the sewing and photograph allows me to reinvent the photograph, also as an ode to the loss of my family history.