A project supported by the Canada Council and CBC/Radio-Canada’s Digital Originals initiative.
Growing up in an immigrant household, food has always been a central part of my identity.
Taste of Home is a series of hyper realistic digital illustrations of foods that I loved and ate growing up. Each image will be attached with a brief memory or thought.
Food is a taste of home, and is an opportunity to share pieces of culture and heritage.
Yet our relationship with foods is deeply political, racist, and classist. For communities of colour, foods are rooted in power and oppression.
Our meals and foods are flavoured by much more than their ingredients. As immigrants, our foods hold rich family cultures and stories. In the dumpling folds, the chopped scallops, and the pinches of spices — each bite holds generations of hardships and love that have been passed down. Each bite is filled with tradition — beautiful, violent, and chaotic.
I believe there is a lot of room to deeply explore the diversity of foods that have come to Canada, and I want to begin from my family’s dinner table.
My illustrations are based on pictures of my mother’s own cooking, but also recipes and images from the internet! They are also documented on @somevixfix on instagram.
