Pei-Yu Hung
Womxn @ Work 2024

Being a womxn is to be an island.
To position yourself in the whirling water of the earth.
Bearing the splashing waves on the coast.
The island nourishes the beings over, above, and under.
The land bears fruits of sweetness with a touch of soreness or bitterness.
In the workshop underneath the mango tree,
My grandmother worked
My mother was the island
that witnessed passengers that came, and those who stayed.
To turn in the sequence of the day and to bathe in the moonlight.
Inviting the warmth of the sun and sharpness of the breeze.
Take some seeds from here and have it float to another.
I am an island.
And to be an island I must be womxn first.
To climb the mango tree and harvest the unripe sour mango.
She said to just put some sugar on it,
And marinate it for a few days.

Pei-Yu Hung (she/her) is an aspiring designer who at RISD majors in Industrial Design with concentrations in Nature–Culture–Sustainability–Studies and History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences. She is currently the co-president of BiomateRIal Circle, a Brown-RISD collaborative focused on interdisciplinary design research on biomaterials, biodesign and sustainable practices.

Along with her extracurricular activities, Hung is also a residential advisor, shop monitor, gallery installer and community organizer. In her studies she focuses on sustainable practices, community engagement and designing play spaces. Currently, she is working on her degree project, Don’t Grow Up—Age and Play, which is supported by the SPUR Fund Grant. Hung hopes to design a playground installation designed for elders in senior assistance centers and envisions an aging future that is fun and playful.