Shu-Ling Chua

I've been creatively stuck for so long..... Building on old work has been inadvertently restricting. I was circling the same themes and subject matter. I'm not the person I was. I need to write from 2026. Revising an old essay is not the same as remembering .  I'll pretend (for now) that my draft manuscript doesn't exist and trust that readers will make connections between old and new. Pretending to write from a blank slate has been freeing. Beneath each essay lies a body of work and thinking. Even if I don't make the link explicit ,  I'm a connecting thread. My viewpoint. My aesthetics. My writing sensibility. I've struggled to find the theme that ties everything together. A writing teacher once suggested mirrors  as they appeared in 'Through the Looking Glass' (2018), 'From the Other Side'  (2019), and  '(Im)material Inheritances' (2020). I shifted to windows , then longing . Perhaps it's time to return to mirrors . still fro...