September 2009, freebie postcard, tiny sushi bento box
| We used to pick up freebie postcards from a stand near the ballet school. I would have to empty the children’s bags regularly as they had a fetish for hoarding these cards. I was using one as a pallet for a small painting I was working on. I sent it to Orah as the September 2009 piece with a miniature bento box I found in a souvenir shop down Orchard Road. The shop owner told me that he had them made in Indonesia as miniature food was popular with the Japanese tourists. A lot of care and attention go into making a bento box. Not only is it nutritious, it can be a form of communication as well. Some moms will place little messages in the bento box for their children to read at lunchtime or the bento itself can act as a proof of love and care a mother provides for her family. I am dreaming about a virtual bento box. Of course, with a large red juicy umeboshi plum in the middle. | 
'Virtual Bento Box', glassine paper, images of food, cotton thread, 24 January 2014
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