Depart On Silent Wings

Depart On Silent Wings traces my mother’s presence through domestic objects and her hearing-impaired perspective, exploring fluid identity, familial care and quiet forms of coexistence.

Depart On Silent Wings

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s reflections on the fluidity of identity in The Waves, Depart On Silent Wings begins with my mother’s perspective as a hearing-impaired individual. It revisits identity through the intimate space of the family.

Through photography, I search for her traces within domestic space: butterfly stickers on walls, butterfly-patterned curtains, orthopedic supports hidden in closets, and fragments of wedding photographs wrapped in plastic film. These symbols embody her strength, sensitivity, and complexity, while revealing the subtle distances, forms of care, and unspoken tensions that exist within family life.

The project considers the home as a space where different ways of sensing, remembering, and communicating coexist. My mother’s identity is not fixed by disability, motherhood, or family history, but appears through fragile details, repeated symbols, and the quiet materials that surround her. In this sense, Depart On Silent Wings opens a space for thinking about how we live with difference, how we listen beyond sound, and how intimacy can be reimagined through attention.