這是一本中英對照的繪本， 為了麗嬰房邁入五十歲寫的「穿在身上的祝福」。除了感恩和祝福外這也是一本為全世界的母親而寫的情書。
Read MoreA few years ago, I read Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon to my young children. It’s a story about a little girl who lives in the Valley of Fruitless Mountain. As its name suggests, the village is cursed with misfortune and barren soil, and its residents stricken with hunger and poverty.
Read MoreThe idea of textiles as an art medium and art form didn’t take hold until recently because of its gendered assignment and for the fact that weaving, knitting, and sewing were largely dismissed as "women's work."
Read MoreMy mother and I are in a storage room behind
her gallery, its lights shut off so as not to damage the displayed textiles with over-exposure to light. The tem- perature in the storage room is chilly, somehow made more noticeable by the constant double whirring of the air-conditioner and dehumidifier which are always on at full blast because the textile pieces need to be in a tem- perature-controlled room, like wine.