The Polyphony
Intrigued to learn about her favorite order at the hawker center, which also ties back to her Hakka ethnicity, Chok took on the project to study the food history of the Hakka Noodle🍜She analyzes food documentaries detailing the Hakka food business of Chef Pang, who started selling Hakka noodles as a vendor after closing his French patisserie to retrace his ethnic roots in times of cultural destabilization.
In Myanmar, while the pandemic along with military-coup has taken away opportunities from the youth, Moon (a once-4th-year dental student), managed to open a bakery in the middle of crisis. Political upheaval eventually forced her to close, but the experience has shaped her new identity which devoted for her self-freedom and the community she owed.
A poem by Mattie Balagat
– diary entries of a tree and a person Words and Visuals by Jia Xuan Chok In my reality, trees and people both have their own ways of documenting life. I decided to take a third-person perspective and peek into their diary entries (don’t ever do that in real life), weaving their stories into a […]
A poem by Chigaemezu Ibegwam
去年の年末にじいちゃんの庭が「清水氏庭園」として国の登録記念物のうち「名勝地関係」に登録されることが決まったらしい。俺はそんな難しい名前で呼んだことはないし、これからも呼ぶことはないと思う。じいちゃんの庭は俺が生まれた時からあって、小さなころはそれのすごさなんて微塵も理解していなかった。
The Polyphony