You must believe in spring
This project explores my unreliable narrative as an immigrant, as someone alien to a new territory.
My work integrates photography and embroidery, creating unique pieces that deconstruct and reconstruct landscape imagery. I capture photos during car journeys, often with my partner driving. I then digitally manipulate these raw images, employing excessive image correction tools(“retouch” and “blend” functions) until they lose their single vanishing point. Once the digital manipulation is complete, I print the images on matte photo paper and begin an intricate process of hand embroidery. This step involves making hundreds of white knots on the inkjet print surface, a technique inspired by Sashiko, a traditional Japanese embroidery method used to mend and reinforce garments.
My work is deeply influenced by my experiences of living in different countries, such as Alaska and Germany. It reflects the quiet comfort of displacement and not knowing how life unfolds.
