Echoes of the Wind consists of six porcelain pieces shaped after documents that structured the lives of the artist’s parents. Two pieces represent their passports—her father’s Chinese passport and her mother’s Thai passport—glazed in the exact colours of the original covers and finished with gold markings that echo their emblems. Another piece depicts her father’s work permit, rendered with minimal glazing to reflect the document’s simplicity. A fourth piece is based on his Alien Certification, a fragile paper more than sixty years old, marking a long history of migration and the effort to build a life across borders.
The final two porcelain sheets represent her parents’ death certificates. They are intentionally left blank. Their unmarked surfaces hold the silence and absence that remain after loss, allowing viewers to confront what persists when official records are no longer available.
Through this work, Wantanee reflects on how clay and stone can serve as repositories of memory. The porcelain sheets become quiet carriers of identity, bureaucracy, and personal history. Rather than reproducing the documents, the series considers what these papers shaped—belonging, labour, movement—and what it means for them to outlast the bodies they once authorised.