How to Cook a Wasp (2025)
experimental documentary, expanded cinema installation

16mm black & white film hand-processed in roasted oolong tea,
found materials from my mother’s restaurant,
direct animation, found 16mm footage, camcorder footage, plastic bags







How to Cook a Wasp explores the passing of intergenerational, intra-communal, and interspecies knowledge. Centering around an audio recording of a spontaneous conversation during a dinner shift at the artist's mother's restaurant, the legendary Aunty Jun Jie shares her family's tradition of catching, cooking, and eating wasps in Taishan, China. The main narrative is projected alongside footage of a seaweed foraging trip with a queer Asian diasporic community off Whidbey Island, educational footage of the wasp life cycle, and 16mm footage of the restaurant.







































installation documentation by keegan holden