Where Do I Come From? / 我從哪裡來 is a hand built ceramic stoneware sculpture in the form of an oversized fortune cookie. Finished with iron oxide wash, and fired to 1305 °C in a gas kiln, the work has a dark, weathered surface that shifts between burnt brown, black, and exposed clay.

The familiar shape of the fortune cookie is still recognizable, but the surface changes how the object is read. Instead of feeling light, sweet, or decorative, it becomes dense and worn. The folds and edges collect darker oxide, giving the piece a sense of age, pressure, and damage.

Layers of text are carved across the ceramic body. Some marks remain visible, while others are scratched away or softened by the oxide wash. The writing does not offer one clear message. It appears as fragments, traces, and interruptions. Language becomes part of the surface, almost like a scar or residue.

The piece plays with the expectation of a fortune cookie as an object that normally contains a small message inside. Here, the message has moved onto the outside, but it cannot be fully read. The work holds a tension between recognition and uncertainty, using the fortune cookie form to reflect on origin, language, memory, and the difficulty of belonging clearly to one place.