When I go home, I want it to be perfect (2023)
3D-printed amber biomedical resin, wires, air, water


When I go home, I want it to be perfect (2023) is a bath toy prototype. Its form is a miniature rendition of the four-foot tall buoys installed in 2023 by the Texas government in the Rio Grande at the US-Mexico border. A collection of linkable floating buoys, each buoy will bear the words of an anonymous migrant person. Enclosed in the naturally protective substance of amber, which acts as a healant and shield for various plant species, the words are carried safely within the violent architecture of a floating border. “When I go home, I want it to be perfect” is buoy prototype #1, the words belonging to a Laotian immigrant friend of mine in the US awaiting, and maybe stalling, the day they will visit their parents’ country.