Wearing My Roots, 14.8 x 21 cm (Pentaptych), Mixed-Media with Watercolour and Textile, 2019

I want to show how beautiful and meaningful Chinese and Indonesian women’s daily activities through a hybrid of Chinese and Indonesian cultural clothings. I took elements from Cheongsam and Kebaya to enhance my traditional values in contemporary. The shapes, volumes, colours and materials are exaggerated. The silhouette is created through the repetition of directional abstract lines