Swallows is a series of printed works that re-imagines oral family narratives through the understated poetics of text, layout, and material form. Centered on the lives of women who migrated to southern China’s factories and small businesses in the 1990s, the project adopts the visual language of administrative documents, personnel records, and quiet ephemera to reflect the overlooked architectures of women’s labor, mobility, and desire.
Through sparse, text-driven compositions evoking files, reports, and intimate registries, Swallows assembles a printed mosaic of fragmented histories and everyday rituals. Each story unfolds through the subtle rhythms of typography and structure, gently illuminating the contours of migration, friendship, love, and the bittersweet thresholds of girlhood.
Through sparse, text-driven compositions evoking files, reports, and intimate registries, Swallows assembles a printed mosaic of fragmented histories and everyday rituals. Each story unfolds through the subtle rhythms of typography and structure, gently illuminating the contours of migration, friendship, love, and the bittersweet thresholds of girlhood.
Rather than offering a spectacle of imagery, Swallows uses the tactility and structure of print to trace the emotional contours of migration, resilience, and sisterhood across shifting landscapes of labor and longing.
