Golden Rice Cookers

Mixed Media installation
2025

Golden rice cookers explores the different interpretation of growing up with rice. From ubiquity of rice cookers, folktales on rice to eating rice

Similar to rice, Asians stereotypically grew up in a house with rice cookers. This artwork celebrates the rice cooker as a mundane object with different shapes sizes and colour. By collecting used rice cookers, the object portrays the stains and dents that was made from years of cooking hinting a narrative of the amount of people it has fed.

​Placed in a library, this project is titled with the word golden as a nod the many asian folktales where many described the padi field as the golden field or turned rice grains to actual gold. It showcased how the original narrator and all the generations who passed down the tales values rice as much as gold.  found in its contents. With snippets of these hundreds of years old tales printed on the rice cookers viewers get to read the tales that previous generations has grown up with and possibly pass it down to the next.
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Golden Rice Cookers involves a workshop to plant yourself inside rice cookers. It involves transforming oneself into plant like shape and planting it inside the installation. The artwork grow the artwork with more and more people plants being contributed as time pass on. It symbolizes how we physically and metaphorically grow up with rice.