Okay… that was honestly giving me the craziest butterflies. I've never been so amped in my life.
I packed my vase, wrapped it like a baby, and sent it all the way from Kuala Lumpur to Paris. PARIS. For 1000 VASES during Paris Design Week 2025, held from 5–7 September 2025 at 8 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris, France.
The show brought together a long list of international artists from over 35 countries, curated by Ayan Gouled Orsini and Francesco Pirrello, with scenography by Jean-Christophe Vaillant and visual identity by Coco Brun, Forget Me Not Studio.
Throughout the time before and during the show, my mind universe drowned me in:
What if it breaks?
What if nobody cares?
What if it just sits there?
This is not a life-changing success story. My income didn’t suddenly stabilise. I didn’t gain thousands of followers. No dramatic breakthrough happened.
But something inside me shifted.
You know how I always talk about my “mind-universe”? The place where I overthink, dream, question everything, and try to build my own internal library of answers? Most of my life happens there. Sometimes I need real-life proof to feed that universe.
Since I started doing ceramics, I had this quiet goal:
One day, my work will be shown internationally.
In 2025, I crossed that off.
And then my vase sold in three days. THREE DAYS. Actually, it was the final day of the show, Phew~
It wasn’t the money. It wasn’t fame. It was the feeling that… wow, something I made in my small space in KL stood in Paris, and someone chose it. Someone wanted to take it home.
I was relieved it sold because I was stressed about shipping it back safely.
Right now, my income is still unstable.
I don’t have a solid plan lined up.
There’s no big announcement coming.
But I feel content.
It’s not a “Paris dream”—it actually happened.
And sometimes that, alone, is enough to keep going, so this won’t be the only time my work travels beyond my imagination.
link to see the full gallery of the exhibition and all included artworks - 1000vases 2025
