“Mother’s Hands” is a video installation that explores from the position of a second generation immigrant, the complexities around Southeast-Asian & Western expectations and family values. By centralizing the Chosen shrine and intimate conversations with her mother, Hoài sets out to unpack her own identity and the ways one can bridge different cultural worlds, generations and norms. “Mother’s hands“ is a quest for belonging, acceptance and intergenerational understanding between a mother and daughter. As a site for portable roots, the installation functions as a shrine to honor the ancestors.The shrine not only symbolizes the believe in acknowledging the not living, but also echoes the notion of “moral debt to our grandparents” and the organization of the patriarchal, heteronormative and conservative societies that Hoài questions with “Mother’s Hands“.