Lotus Beans

Lotus Beans The intense longing associated with homesickness was visited upon the photographer during her period of study at the National Ballet School in Toronto—thus having been separated for the first time from her parents who were dispatched on diplomatic assignment within Central America. A visit to Chinatown initially in pursuit of lotus bean pastries led her to be drawn in by the carefree energy, movement, and happy existence of the children she encountered on the streets. Thereafter she began to notice how they were being nurtured by their parents—and thus, she subconsciously began to reflect upon her own distant family. Hence, she took photographs in identification with these members of other families, such that the genre of street photography became melded with the utmost personal genre of family or vacation photographs—as if perhaps taking photographs of her own extended or projected family.