Mother knows...Best?

• Main Author: Soh, Bernetta Lay Hui
• Other Authors: Lisa Winstanley
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::Design; Visual arts and music::Visual arts
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167958
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Mother Knows…Best? is a semi-fictional and semi-autobiographical illustrated publication based on a series of conversations with my family and close friends. The publication explores stories of emotional inheritance, and by extension generational trauma, in Singapore from a Generation-Z perspective and serves as a means of self-reflection of my own experience. Through storytelling, the publication will allow greater awareness and understanding of this phenomenon, and educate the various nuanced and layered ways in which emotional inheritance manifests in family units and their dynamics. This will encourage readers to make sense of their own experience, as well as provide them with a culturally appropriate, pragmatic and accessible means for retrospection.