Artist Statement

‘Banana’ can be an inappropriate term and a satirical slur. However, in this work, the banana is analogous to the peeling-back of my traditional Asian values and the revelation of a generational cultural shift. The banana creates a dual metaphor for disapproval and change. Concepts of culinary traditions, feeling ‘stitched up’, and fermenting attitudes are represented through culturally significant materials and processes, such as staining with soy sauce, skeletal bamboo, and stitched and decomposing banana skins, which are formatted here as postcards to be taken away as ‘food for thought’.