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mother’s body

2025

Parchment paper, thread, oil on the paper


To explore the things that need to be seen as valuable, I started working on the parchment paper series in Chicago in 2022 when I was a new mother. I began collecting the parchment paper I used to baking and preparing food for my family daily. Its transparency, fragility, and the unique traces left by baking attract me,

which reminds me of human skin and body. The series draws inspiration from individual motherhood experiences and unplanned related to specific body parts, which document motherhood life.

Parchment paper, typically thrown away after use, is seen as “worthless,” but it is evidence of the time and effort I have spent taking care of my family. This series makes visible the domestic labor that is often overlooked or undervalued. In the works, I use sewing as a mending technique; it is also an act of meditation, repair, and healing, a response to moments of lost confidence, self-worth, and identity while immersed in housework.