家族圖案
Family Pattern
Feb 2025
Stoneware, Installation
因為展覽我才第一次到蘇姍的故鄉-印尼坤甸，那裏已經沒有甚麼與她有關的事物，只有去她祖母的墳前看看。帶路的親人已不再懂得閱讀中文，我們只能看著手機上的照片，透過每一個墳墓上那獨特的圖案，辨認出曾祖母安息之處。
對印尼華人家庭來說，或許所謂「中華性」只剩下視覺符號，可以是他們的外貌，也可能是屬於他們家族的紋理。我用不同的泥土再現曾祖母墳上的紋飾，猶如我們每一個人對家族歷史有著不同的詮釋。
It was through an exhibition that I first visited Pontianak, Susan’s hometown in Indonesia. Little remained there tied to her past—save for a visit to her grandmother’s grave. Our relative, who guided us, could no longer read Chinese. We relied on photographs on a phone, matching the unique motifs etched into each tombstone to identify where her great-grandmother lay.
For Indonesian Chinese families, what remains of “Chineseness” may now exist only as visual symbols: in their features, or in the familial textures specific to their lineage. I reconstructed the ornamental patterns from my great-grandmother’s grave using varied clays—much like how each of us reinterprets the fragments of our shared history.