Sinyo is a series rooted in a personal search for Indisch identity and the unresolved legacy of colonialism.
Children’s faces surface in layered colored inks on handmade cotton paper; sometimes sharply defined, sometimes fading into silence. They represent the Sinyo: children born of colonizer and colonized in the former Dutch East Indies. Claimed by neither side, many were taken from their parents or denied family, protection, and future by the colonial system itself.