Field & Cultural Memory
Culture often reveals itself through small details: a word, a garment, a family story, or a gesture repeated across generations. This Field & Cultural Memory section gathers the observations, encounters, and archival traces through which I explore how people remember where they come from.
Field Documentation — Through My Lens
Culture, Tourism & the Agency to Represent
During my fieldwork in Liangshan, I explored how tourism can create new opportunities for cultural visibility while also simplifying the traditions it seeks to celebrate. Through interviews, site visits, and cultural documentation, I examined Yi embroidery, Bimo traditions, language, education, and local tourism. The experience changed how I understood preservation: not as keeping culture unchanged, but as ensuring that communities retain the agency to interpret, adapt, and represent their own heritage.
Published in Curieux Journal in 2024
Awarded Most Creative Action Plan Award
Oral History — Uniforms Remembered
What a Uniform Reveals
What can a school uniform reveal beyond its color and cut? History Worn began with this question. Drawing from archives, historical photographs, oral accounts, and visual analysis, I traced 110 years of uniforms at my school. Each design reflected more than changing styles: it carried ideas about discipline, belonging, educational values, and student identity. By examining an object worn every day, I discovered that cultural memory can be found not only in distant traditions, but also in the ordinary materials closest to us.