An ongoing body of work, 2026 –

This project is a lifelong love letter to my mother, my grandparents, and everything I once could not imagine living without. Unfolding slowly, across many years and many forms — painting, archive, ritual object, sound, the kitchen table — it is a tribute to grief rituals, micro-histories, and the people who raised us.

At its foundation is the Tang Family Archive: over 7,000 photographs, documents, and letters recording our family's life from the 1940s to the present, across Hong Kong, Macau, and now London. The archive is both research and artwork, and the record from which everything else grows.

In a world where everything moves too fast, this project is a slow reading of a life. It moves through motherhood and matriarchy, cultural inheritance and diaspora, art as spiritual practice, as a way of calling on ancestors, of thinning the veil, and the love that no longer has anywhere to go.

New works are added as they are ready. It begins with Have A Rice Day, a recipe zine built in the living room with my mother and my aunt, launching in Spring 2027.

In October 2026, I was awarded funding from Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England and will be developing skills that move beyond painting: clay, oral history and interactive digital storytelling, alongside research into the Shan Hai Jing, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hong Kong urban legends, investigating how to hold my family’s memory in forms that outlast me, and that others can walk into. The research undertaken between November 2026 to November 2027 will feed into the work in this project.

You can follow along my process and research via my Substack.

This project is for those who came before us, and for those who will come after us.