I find myself lost in my fathers homeland, Vietnam. What would my life look like if I had been born and raised here?
To deal with feelings of being observed and out of place, unable to directly communicate, I turned to photography
in an attempt – or rather an excuse – to create connections. Through performative self-portraits I try to find my place in this alienating yet strangely familiar world.
This work is a visualisation of the ambivalent place in which I feel I exist when I am there. It’s a place where I feel the gaze of others and my own gaze colliding.