boat home boat 2016 references the artist’s book of the same title, first created in 2012-13. Both objects mimic the title in form, having the shape of a house at one end and the profile of a boat at the other. The book text narrates true stories of ocean travel and migration on a concertina length of paper that opens into leaves resembling ocean waves. The tales are scattered on the pages as if tossed at sea, and describe journeys of loss (of home and loved ones), fear (of death and the unknown), and dislocation (of identity and roots) in searching for ‘home’. Ly plays with the idea of censorship in the sculpture, so that viewers are free to insert names and places in the spaces denoted by blanks in the tales. She hopes that, in the future, boat home boat will become a monumental sculpture sheltering people from the elements.