Title: There's Rice At Home 

Artist: Kazvare Made It

Artwork description: This work presents the phrase “There’s Rice At Home” in red text against a background of archival material from The Rice Journal(1917), which records global rice production, trade, and export flows across British India, China, West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. The archival text reflects rice as a globally circulated commodity shaped by colonial trade routes, agricultural labour, and uneven distribution. It maps rice not as a stable domestic staple, but as something contingent, moving across borders in response to demand, shortage, and control. “There’s Rice At Home” operates as a widely used phrase in diasporic households, suggesting restraint and the expectation to make do with what is already available. Against the archival context, thatexpectation is unsettled. The record shows a food system defined by import, scarcity, and external control, where what is “at home” is neither fixed nor guaranteed.The work holds the space between domestic language and global circulation, suggesting that “home” is both immediate and dispersed, shaped as much by historical systems as by everyday life.

Medium: Printed as giclée prints on 100% cotton rag paper.

Size: A2