A gardener with many fields (2026)
Essay film, A Gardener with Many Fields (6:36), 2026. In this essay film, I cited the following works and materials, in the order of appearance: Georges Perec, “Notes on What I’m Looking For,” in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, 2008. anna andrejew, Fallow Forms, Sansan Books, 2025. VTV Tuinderslust board, “Resultaat tuinschouw – …
Chinese vegetables vs. Dutch weeds (2023 – )
Chinese vegetables vs. Dutch weeds 2023 – ongoing Photography-based work Media: Nettle paper, photography series, and text Text: Failing to Grow Chinese Vegetables in Volkstuin Within two years of moving to Rotterdam, I decided to grow vegetables that are common in daily life in China. At first, I only had windowsills and a small west-facing …
Tuin is the message (2025)
Tuin is the message 2025 Artist's book / sculptural photobook I developed Tuin is the message through NoR, a residency programme I co-organised with Tianyi Zheng at VTV Tuinderslust, bringing together four local and international artists. The book brings together my photographic documentation of the artists and their processes during the residency. I designed the …
Nature of Rotterdam (2023–2025)
Nature of Rotterdam 2023–2025 Photography series 120mm medium-format analogue photography Nature of Rotterdam explores life in the volkstuin, where cultivation, everyday routines, and forms of communal life take place within the industrial landscape of Rotterdam. The title refers to this particular tension: Rotterdam is a city shaped by industry, infrastructure, and the port, where …
(Un)favourable Conditions (2023)
(Un)favourable Conditions 2023 Photography-based installation Developed for Non-Native Native Fair at Framer Framed, Amsterdam. The work combines an analogue photography series with approximately 30 potted Fatsia japonica plants, grown from seeds collected from my garden. The plants and photographs bring together different forms of cultivation, movement, and adaptation, reflecting on what it means for a …
Places as experience (2023–ongoing)
Places as Experiences 2023–ongoing Photography series, digital and analogue This ongoing body of photographic work is inspired by Gary Snyder’s writing on “becoming placed” – the ways in which we learn to inhabit and belong to a place. “We experience slums, prairies, and wetlands all equally as ‘places.’ Like a mirror, a place can hold …
Ten Thousand Things (2024–2025)
Ten Thousand Things 2024–2025 Photography series Medium-format analogue photography, double exposure A series made in Hokkaido, Japan, exploring the shifting boundary between nature and the city through double exposure. The images merge and transform these two environments, reflecting the Taoist idea of the “ten thousand things” as an interconnected world of beings and their relationships. …
Flowerscape (2024)
The Flowerscape 2024 Photobook 36 pages, Colour printing on matte coated paper, with an additional tracing-paper spread The Flowerscape began with the tulip fields of the Netherlands, an intensely cultivated and artificial landscape. The vivid colours create an almost surreal sense of abundance and liveliness, while beneath them the ground can appear strangely quiet, exhausted, or …
Counterintuitive (2023)
In Counterintuitive, I explore the spaces where I lived as an immigrant and the places I travelled to, as a way to make sense of the “physical context” around me. These surroundings often appeared without clear definition, slipping by like a passing backdrop, yet they quietly shaped my days and left traces I only recognised …
Tracing Lights (2023)
Tracing Lights 2023 This body of work began with looking at Rotterdam from the perspective of an Asian woman living between different cultural landscapes. It marked the beginning of my practice with analogue photography, working with a range of SLR and medium-format cameras. In 2023, a photographic series from this research was presented at Rotterdam …
