A little duck misses its human friend who always shows up during the special occasion of Loy Krathong, but stops showing up as the human had met an untimely, albeit expected, death.

It’s not only humans that can feel loss and longing from an unexpected and untimely death. Jing Ying Yeo’s work explores the emotional impact of human death on nonhuman animals, subverting the tired ecological trope that nature would be better off without humans. In this beautiful work, a little duck is saddened by the death of a human kin, the reasons of which are left to the reader’s interpretation.

Read the article on https://newnaratif.com/a-little-ducks-longing

Produced by Dania Joedo, narrated by Sarah Hana

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