Lim Ching-Yung, Angela

A video portrait by Thai Tai Pham.

Considering resilience, the ability to bounce back is particularly important. Thus, Angela Lim suggests rubber bands as an appropriate metaphor. Everyone may either intentionally or intuitively stretch, shrink, or flick rubber bands to experience their elasticity. Their bounciness serves as an analogy for the ability to come back; they’re a personal, oblique, yet physical representation of resilience.

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