2024 ShowOff! Artwork Noko Oka

Dinner table

Our family's love language is exchanged through food, especially at the dinner table. The dinner table was where we shared love for each other. This painting consists of my mother, my father, and my sister from left to right, and myself colorless, shoving birthday cake down my throat in an unpleasant way as I’m forcing myself to intake my family’s love from the pressure and guilt I was dealing with.