XNG Designs

Last day of AAPI Month, I wanted to share a recent work I did with VIIVNCAIS V-Show early of 2024

Lub Kawm : a woven bamboo basket used for carrying one’s goods such as crops and other items.

My mother and her mother and her mother before her used this basket to help them with their dailey lives. Carrying tools to tend their fields, crops… waking up early before dusk and working until the sun is kissing the horizon of the golden tipped grain field.

During a specific time of the day when the sun sets and rises just right, the kawm starts to reflect a color almost gold-like.

Back then, riches meant good crops and many lands with good fertile soil… the gold flakes on the skirt represents the soil… a good land that can provided can be as priceless as gold to my ancestors.

Model: Yer Xiong
Photographer: Kyle Xiong
Designer: XNG Designs / yours truly