Birthing pains

1. Pocket seas
Flipbooks animations of mobile phone videos of the sea, shot from seven points of the island.

2. Sailing pockets
A scaled down suite of sails sewed from transparent organza, turned into shoulder bags, incorporating pockets rescued from old trousers. White is the colour of surrender.

3. Sitting states/Bumiputeri
Silhouettes of different states of sitting, filled with sand, sewn into straw mats. Weight of the body - imprint on the land. This place is forcing teaching me to sit.

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12 people die when their boat sinks after leaving Port Klang. They're on their way home to celebrate Hari Raya.

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Each person journeys to find a home, and this journey is internal as much as external.

We all need safety, a place to rest and sit. This invitation is extended to all - rich and poor, young and old, male and female, from all corners of the world - because this search is basically a function of the body. This body that's a universal burden - humble, imperfect (like a carpet) - with so much capacity for pain. The mind and spirit are respites of the body. Sometimes the body is its own respite.

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Reading: The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago; The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian.

Saramago's nobel lecture *here*.
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Feeling: something moving.

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Missing: Poop, friends, lover & family.