don't you know? tomorrow morning the sky is going to fall! 

2025
Series of Installation 
Turmeric sculpture, turmeric map, mulberry paper, calico sheets

don’t you know? tomorrow the sky is going to fall! revisits the 1740 Batavia massacre, when thousands of Chinese residents were killed by the VOC under the pretext of quelling rebellion. The work traces how trauma seeps into the soil, how histories of violence continue to echo beneath the surfaces of our cities.

The turmeric-stained clay carries a scent of preservation and decay, working as both medicine and residues, evoking domestic rituals of healing that persist long after the body is gone. Grasshoppers, cast and sculpted, recall the locust: a fragile creature that arrives in swarms, feared for its abundance yet innocent in its instinct to survive. Together, these materials inhabit the tension between fertility and ruin, life and extermination.

The text “don’t you know? tomorrow the sky is going to fall!” acts as both prophecy and remembrance. It speaks from the perspective of those who foresaw collapse yet were unheard, their voices scattered like dust. This work reflects on how history repeats itself in cycles of fear and control, and how nature, in its smallest, most delicate forms, becomes a witness to human brutality and endurance.