To Surrender
Year: 2022
Dimensions: 7.25” H x 5.25” L x 5.25” D
Materials: Brick, porcelain, resin, foam, poppy seeds, silk, needle and found objects
Never once
I tell my parents
我愛你
But I tell
my English-speaking
Lovers
“I love you”
Before I hang up
Before I sleep
And before I leave
To love
In Chinese
Is to withhold
the intense emotions
At heart
And only address it
In the last moments
Meandering in
Such polar approaches
Taught me to be
In the middle
Not to love too lightly
Or too heavily
But the confusion lies
In not knowing
What to say
when I mean it
And what to do
when I feel it
-The Weight of Words