Happy lunar new year to those who celebrated today! I meant for this blog to be more about my creative process, but since it's a holiday for Chinese people (and other Asians) I decided to share what little I know about it.

This table was set up facing a window where we honored ancestors and some diety(?). We invited my grandparents to come "eat." Then we faced the table toward a portrait of my late father so that he could "eat" too. Then my mother and I ate for real.

I'm terrible because I don't know what anything symbolizes. I just go through the motions and do what my mother tells me to do, lol. I don't have children so these rites and traditions will end with me. And when my parents' generation passes, my cousins' kids would be the ones to carry them on if they wish.

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