Come Back to Your Mammy, Live Performance, Performance Video, 12’33”, 2023.

 

In this performance, I approach a maple tree that has already shed many leaves. I loosen my tied-up hair, comb out the fallen hair, and use it to tie the stones to the fallen leaves. Utilizing the force of throwing stones, I attempt to throw the fallen leaves back onto the tree. But in reality, the thrown rocks ended up causing more leaves to fall.

 

This work was initially inspired by a memory fragment involving a friend's baby girl. She vigorously threw fallen leaves back onto the tree while earnestly exclaiming, "Come back to your mammy!" This is a touching understanding of the interconnectedness of these sets of relationships: motherhood and oneself, the nurturing process, the passage of time carried by plants, as well as life and death. In my opinion, it reflects her primal imagination of feminine, femininity, and feminism in her mind.