The uprooted, the American dream, the thick-and-sweet sauce, and an empty dining hall—too much for any one person to face and survive. It is easier to demolish a closed restaurant. Inspired by Robert Nelson’s Oh Dem Watermelons and its meditation on race and food, this video collage combines cutouts, reenactments, found footage, and fragments of earlier films to reconstruct personal and collective memory while reflecting on the immigrant experience through the Americanization of food.

關於遷徙、美國夢、濃稠甜膩的醬汁，以及一間空蕩的餐廳——這一切對一個人而言，也許過於沉重；相較之下，拆除一家已然歇業的餐館，反而顯得容易得多。受羅伯特．尼爾森（Robert Nelson）《Oh Dem Watermelons》中對種族與食物的思考啟發，這部錄像拼貼結合剪貼、重演、拾得影像及過往作品片段，試圖重構個人與集體記憶，並透過食物的美國化過程，反思移民經驗。