My practice often features elements of research, survey and travelling, and in the meantime, it centers on certain figures. By borrowing certain episodes out of their life stories based on museum records, archival documents and oral narration, I keep building and breaking linkages among the various fragments and searching possibilities to orchestrate them on different occasions.

Through projects in recent years I have been focusing on various forms of stressed labour (of both human and nonhuman). These labourers have been forced to move from place to place, and greatly contributed to the shape of particular localities. From the research about the Filipino Santeros (religious icon carvers) who due to lack of work have been transformed into Ice Carvers performing on the cruise ships, to the collaboration with the laboratory researching on a subset of plants that can accumulate extraordinary amounts of metals within their living tissues so those plants actually became miners...

I continue to be fascinated by these Stressed Labours constantly being transformed in various contexts. Question that I often ask is what art can bring into these realities in making.

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