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.
– 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 […]
What am I saving for?
What am I living for?
What does the future look like?
The pursuit of perfection, pushing yourself to impossible standard and unobtainable limits can drive our sense of “self-improvement” and “personal development”; yet, it is restricting, suffocating and killing creativity.
The Polyphony