Cultural Understanding
Original Work
Grandmother – 外婆
A short narrative of what I call my grandmother, and how that changed over time. Poem by Abby Lu In Chinese, our maternal grandmother is referred to as: 外婆, old lady of outside. Yet to me, my Old Lady of Outside is the one who knows my heart the most, inside out. So one day, […]
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An elegy for my home city – Hong Kong. It contains fragmented memories in an amalgamation, like a pyroclastic igneous rock, or perhaps a breccia. Either way, they are organic, sincere, and raw. A work by Abby Lu My City, My Love. Hong Kong. I like to run my hands through tomatoes, stacked in yellow […]
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