This 3D animated poetry piece uses surreal imagery to deconstruct the symbiotic trauma within East Asian mother-daughter relationships. It portrays a mutated creature—a being with a woman's face embedded in the crimson shell of a ladybug—continuously transforming within a kitchen filled with domestic symbols. Its crawling trajectory outlines a psychological landscape where mother and daughter become each other’s prison, while childhood photographs merge with their digitally rendered faces, blurring the boundaries of individuality.
Through the ladybug’s perspective, the work reconstructs the traditional domestic space. It crawls over a kettle, a fan, a television, and a washing machine—appliances whose mechanical hums form an unspoken dialogue between mother and daughter. As the insect’s legs brush against the mother’s calf and its wing-covered face flickers across the TV’s static screen, the unsaid expectations and silent gazes seep through the gaps between household objects. The photographs on its shell peel away with the flutter of its wings, like memory fragments eroded by the repetitive cycle of domestic chores, while the washing machine spins endlessly, symbolizing the inescapable loop of their relationship.
The work reveals the painful paradox of East Asian familial love: we consume each other's space in the name of care, yet in the other’s gaze, we see only our own fractured reflection. This distorted symbiosis may be the survival mechanism mother and daughter have unconsciously built together. The ladybug is the tiny creature the mother cannot ignore, while she, trapped in the endless cycle of household labor, gradually loses herself.