Lived and Unlived

Lived experience and cultural memory are often partial, altered, or translated through time and distance. This series of lidded containers explores how second-generation diaspora experience forms not through direct experience of migration, but through what is passed down - fragments of language, cultural practice, family stories, and what remains unspoken.

The lidded form reflects this inheritance: something preserved across generations, yet never fully accessible. Each vessel holds absence as much as presence, echoing the way cultural memory is carried, altered, and reinterpreted over time.