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When larger systems such as capitalism regulate nearly every dynamic of our living environments, basic individual rights within smaller, more intimate spheres are often deemed insignificant. This renders us vulnerable as individuals, exposed to systematic neglect and oppression. Under such conditions, the problems we face become increasingly complex, dulling our sensitivity to vulnerability itself; both within our own bodies and within our (equally hierarchical) relationships with others and with the environment.

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Amid a system that constantly makes us feel insufficient, I seek to create space for feelings of exhaustion, anger, and bitterness to surface, held with critical awareness yet remaining sensitive. This work emerges from those emotions, which I continue to reflect on and renegotiate. The desire to survive, often colliding with the reality of limited, damaged, or development-altered spaces, only sharpens vulnerability and further narrows our choices for living.

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Drawing from my lived experience of the landscapes of Kalimantan since childhood, I attempt to trace how the wild and the othered, including myself, devise strategies for survival. This work becomes a site to revisit forms of vulnerability and to map what remains silenced in personal and everyday life, opening up conversations about survival strategies and about how we might care for and support one another.

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