This project explores my father's migration story leaving from war-torn Vietnam (1970s), situating his experience of displacement and refuge within contemporary. Conversations around immigration, alongside my own conflicting identity as a second-generation immigrant in the UK. It reflects the tension of living between a state of belonging and survival. 

The project becomes both a historical reflection and a personal exploration of how and why I am here, drawing from Vietnamese and Chinese heritage, I combined cultural silhouettes with military influences, using draped jackets and bamboo structures. Inspired by East Asian junk boats, a symbolic memory of my father's journey as part of the boat people. Bamboo becomes a physical and emotional trace, evoking movement, and senses through eroded textiles, frayed edges, and reconstructed.