This series explores our relationship with the sea as a site of human awe and horror, beauty and cruelty. Drawing from my family heritage, I investigate how cultures are carried, translated, commodified and erased through colonisation, migration and trade, and the remnants left behind from these processes and journeys. 

Scavenged ceramics (including delftware) and ephemera from the sea, combined with hand twisted cordage reflect the labour of seafarers, dockworkers and shipbuilders, for instance the early Chinese migrants to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. They become traces through which I explore my own Chinese and European ancestry, and the complex ways in which these identities intersect.