Expanding from her own locus and cultural politics, Yee I-Lann unpacks and shifts understandings of places and histories through her artistic practice. In Kuala Lumpur, over roughly 25 years, she became an active participant in the film industry, punk rock scene, art world, as well as a vocal activist for environmental and sociopolitical issues. At the end of 2016, she returned from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, her birthplace, where she began collaborating with weavers from the Sulu Sea and the Sabah interior, exploring how traditional and contemporary concepts and media might engage, expand, and change the world. In November 2019, she installed a 15-meter-long, double-sided woven mat, Tikar-A-Gagah (2019), at the National Gallery Singapore, and held an exhibition of weavings, “ZIGAZIG ah!,” at Silverlens Gallery in Manila. I sat down with the artist to discuss her multifarious work and her journey to “find her mat.”