三個選擇
Three Choice
Feb 2025
Underglaze blue and Overglaze on porcelain
當年蘇姍來到香港後，媒人給了她三個選擇：頭不能再向下的油漆工人、駝背的男人、曾經的漁民。蘇姍閱讀過香港歷史，以為香港是個小漁村，漁民必定是大戶，便選擇了漁民。誰知漁民人才是被放逐的一群。
When Susan arrived in Hong Kong, the matchmaker offered her three choices: a painter who could no longer lower his head, a hunchbacked man, or a former fisherman. Having read about Hong Kong’s history as a fishing village, she assumed fishermen were prosperous—a romanticized narrative that led her to select the fisherman. She soon learned, however, that fishermen were among the marginalized, their status eroded by the city’s rapid transformation.
This dissonance—between mythologized histories and the realities of displacement—echoes the fragile illusions that shape migrant aspirations. Susan’s choice, rooted in misread cultural symbols, mirrors the collisions of identity and belonging I explore in my work.
