Helen Tran
Vessel of Offerings
Photography
Each panel depicts teacup sets that convey a photographic dialogue for prayers and offerings to our ancestors. These porcelain vessels hold tea or water, which is symbolic of "holding conversations". Tea ceremonies are customary practice in China and Japan, where the ceremony represents harmony, respect, purity, and tranquillity.
“We make tea offerings to our ancestors and ask for their blessings.”
Work by
Helen Tran
Printmaking & Photography
“When it comes to mourning and grief of others, it has primarily affected me when there is an event of death. It then follows me by forlorn sorrow and silence, with traces of their memories that stay...” [More]