Today is week 5/53 of #TWmemorymondays! If you're new, it is a series of paintings I'm doing once a week for 2018 that are inspired by memories. Most of them will be mine, but I'm starting off the year with my parents'. Watch today's laintibg process via instastories!

This week is my mom's earliest memory, which I love. I can imagine my grandmother carrying my mom as a young girl to the market. It's really busy and people are chatting and picking out fresh Chinese vegetables. There are alot of colors and smells. Chinese herbs and incence. The atmosphere probably felt so familiar in the deepest way. I love going to Chinese markets with my mom when I go home, and it's fun to think that it's a small echo of my mom's experience in Hong Kong. The following is what my mom texted me about her memory:

"My earliest memory is that my mom carried me on her back to the open market to buy meat and veggies every day. People knew each other. I remembered the neighbors were all so closely knitted. My mom spent most of her days with neighbor friends, helping and supporting one another. I played with friends living next door and downstairs before I started to go to school."

If you swipe right, you can see photos of my mom when she was almost one years old. So cute!
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#TWmemorymondays: A painting inspired by a memory every Monday of 2018. Connecting abstract art to real life. Week 5/53. 'New' / 8x8 in / mixed media on paper