2020
digitized 16mm colour, silent, 6’47”
Cooking is like walking inhabits a Chinese home cooked meal of steamed sea bass, a dish often served in times of celebration. The everyday motions of preparing and cooking a meal become gestures of learning, searching and healing through the repetition, simplicity and structure that cooking can provide. This video is about reckoning with anxiety and trauma in the body, conceiving survival beyond it and exploring what it means to return or recover what has been lost.