Returning to my hometown, Nabua, in March 2013 for my dissertation fieldwork for my doctoral degree in Anthropology, I took up the challenge to rebuild the bamboo business once operated by my grandparents which I renamed as Nabua Home Industries (NHI). In July 2014, the revived, but much smaller enterprise, was re-introduced at a … Continue reading Bamboo Revival
Project Type: Photographs
Artist statement: Our family home in the province rings with silence – piled up in several nooks are stacks of boxes sent from overseas as gifts to the few who have been left behind; toys once owned by my cousins are left unattended, broken; the once lively factory for weaving baskets, which for … Continue reading The Un/Natural State of Things