About

I’m Rong, based in Sydney, with a background in archaeology, cultural heritage and museum studies. Rong’s Field Notes is where I collect what I notice while studying, walking, reading, visiting museums, and looking closely at places, objects and everyday life. My interests often return to one question: how does the past stay with us? Sometimes it is held in streets, buildings and landscapes. Sometimes it appears in books, objects and collections. Sometimes it lives through language, migration, family stories and daily habits. On this site, I bring together place notes, reading notes, material notes and small projects, mostly starting from Sydney and Australia. I am interested in cultural heritage not only as something preserved in museums, archives or official sites, but also as something lived, remembered, handled, spoken, walked through and passed on. Some works here are finished. Others are still in progress. Together, they form a record of how I learn, notice and make sense of the past as it continues to shape everyday life. The past lives in more than one form.