In this short film, the vessels and the making process are used to represent a metaphorical journey of a woman navigating her domestic trauma and reclaiming her self-agency through the acts of making with her own hands. This showcases how both trauma and change can begin with a touch and subverts the role of domestic craft to be rebellious rather than marginalised.

Throughout the development of my practice, hand-making actions have been utilised as an activist force against patriarchy. In this project, cutting the interior furnishing fabrics into strips and recoiling them with domestic craft materials symbolises reconstructing the domestic environment to honour women. Cutting the original floral pattern into fragments without following the design acts as a rejection of traditional biased gender roles. And combining them with deliberately destroyed gown-making fabrics further emphasises resistance against the idealisation of marriage. The use of malleable wire incorporates feminine strength as flexible and resilient, while enabling the final pieces to respond to touch, conveying both positive and negative symbolic messages. The intuitive act of mark-making through stitching, without being constrained by rules, celebrates the characteristics of feminine energy as spontaneous and organically free-form, rejecting the patriarchal value of favouring standardised mass production.