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Have a good rest! (2025)

Hand-guided machine embroidered, found silk fabric, reflective fabric; silk, viscose and metalic threads, rattan mat.

Pillow: 1.5x 33 x 360cm

Have a Good Rest! (2025) extends this meditation into the social realm. Constructed as a textile “pillow book,” the work invites viewers to lie down, reclaiming rest as an act of protest. One side is embroidered with figures of people sleeping or reclining in public spaces—moments of unplanned, minimal leisure I observed during my travels. The other side, stitched with the word REST repeatedly on reflective fabric, flashes under light, transforming a passive state into a visual and political assertion. Referencing Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book and Vietnamese socialist propaganda such as “Yêu lao động” (“Love to Work”), I question whether contemporary societies still allow the body to rest without guilt or justification.

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Exhibited at PRICK! Needlework Now Exhibition

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery

Feb 2025

Melbourne, Australia

Photo by Christian Capurro

Exhibited at Koganecho Bazaar 2025

Yokohama, Japan

Photo by Liu Shujia

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