半 (bàn) object size: 250 x 5 x 5 cm / Short film: 13 mins / The definition of 半(bàn): semi-, incomplete, (after a number) and a half. 半(bàn) comprises of two elements: a short film which is about the relationship between Ngan Wa and her mother, along with a journey of memory she has based on the photographs of her missing father. Another element is an object of around 20,000 torn halves of a portrait of Ngan Wa's missing father stuck together. Photographs have been always are very violent objects in Ngan Wa's life since she witnessed her mother destroyed family photographs in front of her when she was a child, and her father has been missing for more than 10 years now. There are only a few ID photos of him left and photographs that he took. The work is about finding the meaning of destroyed photographs and why people have a strong emotional attachment to what it represents on photos. To rebuild the relationship with photography is an attempt for Ngan Wa to restore her relationship with herself and her parents as well. The 20,000 torn halves of a portrait were a photocopy of her father in his 20s, the photo he used to exchange for a date with Ngan Wa's mother, the exchange of portraits had started her parents' relationship, but it also by became a wound in Ngan Wa's life later on. Ngan Wa repeated the action of destroying photos as her mother did to understand the pain, anger and loss that photographs have brought to her. "I remember someone holding my hand and teaching me how to hold a roll of color negative films up to the sky so that I could see images captured. I remember searching for my face in those blurry negatives images, with a blue sky and sunshine as background. If it was my father who taught me how to see photographs in the past, well, then he still does, and I am grateful for that."