As the poet Ocean Vuong reminds us, in Vietnamese, the word for missing and remembering is the same: nh?. My work is centered around this tension, as I yearn for something I can no longer remember. My process involves sewing architectural forms onto a water-soluble backing, which allows me to separate the stitches from the support. These structures are then secured onto recycled paper pulp grounds. The act of washing away the backing demolishes but also transforms the material into an adhesive that, once dried, stiffens the stitches and allows them to stand on their own. The stitches that remain create an abstracted architectural form within the dissolved contextual space. I think of this “void” as a symbolic act of reclaiming and rebuilding what was once lost. What I want to make is not a perfect representation of a house, but something that can convey the sense of loss, of longing for a nebulous thing that is nameless, formless, a thing that is embraced by and exists within the void. To do this, I employ abstraction as a formal strategy to invent new forms, which are drawn and distilled from different bodies of knowledge, such as architecture and urban/natural landscapes. Through my own abstracted visual language, I can process and articulate my experiences.