Flight explores the quiet power of cultural transmission, how something as simple as rice can carry memory, connection, and survival across oceans.

In Staying Home, the gesture is subtle, a mark nearly swallowed by its surroundings. It suggests what remains when others have gone, the rooted ones, the traditions kept close, the meals repeated out of love and necessity.

Crossed Lines introduces tension. There’s beauty in the blend, warmth layered with contrast, but also confusion, a sense that signals have missed their mark. It's the complexity of navigating inherited customs in unfamiliar terrain.

Gone Abroad speaks to adaptation. The form floats, altered but recognizable. It carries the memory of where it came from, even as it settles into new soil.

Together, these works use rice as a symbol of communion across borders, how one grain can connect a village in the Caribbean to a home in Canada, a recipe in memory to a body in protest. But even shared ingredients don’t always mean shared access. For those with restrictions, the very symbol of unity can reinforce distance.

God scatters with purpose.

He scattered the nations at Babel. He scattered Israel into exile. And still, He says: “I will gather you again.” In God's hands, flight isn’t just about movement, it’s about mission. His presence moves with the scattered.

Rice reaches across continents, nourishing people who may never meet. And God’s Word, His grace, does the same, crossing languages, borders, and dietary lines. Even when you feel like the one person who can’t partake, He sees you. He makes room.

“He gives food to every creature. His love endures forever.” Psalm 136:25

Your distance doesn’t disqualify you. Your difference doesn’t displace you. You are part of a story that travels.

Reflection Question

Where have you seen God meet you in what sets you apart?