Waterloo

Year: 2021-2022
Material: Vintage silk kimono swatches, Indian cotton, vintage French trimming and cotton threads
Size: 130 x 113 x 1cm
 
This work was initiated with the memory of my unfamiliar parents staring – bewildered yet excited – at a sandwich bar in Waterloo Eurostar station back in the day. These archetypal sandwiches speak to bridging cultural and geographical distances and a future unfolding before our wide eyes. Sandwich motifs represent 21st-century life – modernity and cultural diversity – that relishes (pun intended) the emergence of new ideas, embodied by a dizzying variety of sandwiches. One can create one’s unique self if we remain creative and open-minded.