The Other Side Up / (zh) 此面朝上 is a large ceramic fortune cookie with two contrasting surfaces. The entire piece was first drawn with underglaze pencil. After that one side was brushed with iron wash, leaving only traces of the original drawing visible. The opposite side remains untouched, where the pencil lines are still exposed. Although both surfaces belong to the same object, only one side is meant to face upward.

The title comes from the familiar shipping instruction, “This Side Up.” In English, The Other Side Up asks viewers to turn the object over, while the Chinese title, 此面朝上, points in the opposite direction. The contradiction reflects my own experience of moving between cultures. Over the years, I’ve become used to deciding which parts of myself to show and which parts to keep to myself. The two surfaces don’t represent a true self and a false self. They simply show different sides of the same person.