2018 → PRESENT
An ongoing illustrated series exploring food, heritage, diaspora and the everyday objects that connect us to home.
Established 2018 · Created by Shawna Chan
An ongoing love letter to sauces, food, heritage and home.
AZN Sauce of Love began in 2018, when Shawna was approached by Facebook Analog to create a poster for the 2019 APHM.
At the time, Shawna was homesick and thinking a lot about identity, belonging and representation. After 13 years in the United States, she didn't quite identify with the label "Asian American." She was, and remains, proudly Singaporean Peranakan.
So when she was given the opportunity to create a piece about Asian Pacific American representation, she started thinking about what representation looked like through her own experience.
She thought about sauces.
She looked at the visual history of APHM posters and noticed that flora appeared often, but sauces were rarely part of the visual language.
Then she thought about her own fridge.
It was full.
Soy sauce. Chili sauce. Kecap manis. Sambal. Curry pastes. Condiments from different places and food traditions, all living together in one gloriously overstocked Singaporean fridge.
Why not sauces?
What began as sketches and research in 2018, and became a poster in 2019, grew into an ongoing illustrated series exploring food, memory, diaspora and the everyday things that connect us to home.
Since 2019, AZN Sauce of Love has grown into 30+ original works spanning illustration, art prints, ceramics, textiles, objects and collaborations.
Some pieces are still available. Others have sold out or been retired.
This archive documents the story so far.
The risograph poster that started AZN Sauce of Love.
Created for APHM as an exploration of Asian Pacific American representation through something deeply familiar: the sauces found in our kitchens, on our tables and in our memories.
The beginning of the sauce family.
2018 → PRESENT
A growing collection of 30+ original AZN Sauce of Love works.
Explore the sauces, illustrations and objects that have become part of the series over the years.
AVAILABLE
Currently available in the shop.
ARCHIVED
No longer available, but permanently part of the AZN Sauce of Love archive.
RETIRED
No longer produced.
Archive coming together piece by piece.
AZN Sauce of Love was created by Shawna Chan in 2018 and continues to evolve as an original illustrated series.
From early sketches and research to a single APHM risograph poster and 30+ works and counting, the archive traces an ongoing exploration of food, culture, memory and home.
2018 → PRESENT
30+ ORIGINAL WORKS
Some AZN Sauce of Love works are still available in the shop.
An ongoing love letter to sauces, food, heritage and home.
AZN Sauce of Love began in 2018, when Shawna was approached by Facebook Analog to create a poster for the 2019 APHM.
At the time, Shawna was homesick and thinking a lot about identity, belonging and representation. After 13 years in the United States, she didn't quite identify with the label "Asian American." She was, and remains, proudly Singaporean Peranakan.
So when she was given the opportunity to create a piece about Asian Pacific American representation, she started thinking about what representation looked like through her own experience.
She thought about sauces.
She looked at the visual history of APHM posters and noticed that flora appeared often, but sauces were rarely part of the visual language.
Then she thought about her own fridge.
It was full.
Soy sauce. Chili sauce. Kecap manis. Sambal. Curry pastes. Condiments from different places and food traditions, all living together in one gloriously overstocked Singaporean fridge.
Why not sauces?
What began as sketches and research in 2018, and became a poster in 2019, grew into an ongoing illustrated series exploring food, memory, diaspora and the everyday things that connect us to home.
Since 2019, AZN Sauce of Love has grown into 30+ original works spanning illustration, art prints, ceramics, textiles, objects and collaborations.
Some pieces are still available. Others have sold out or been retired.
This archive documents the story so far.
The risograph poster that started AZN Sauce of Love.
Created for APHM as an exploration of Asian Pacific American representation through something deeply familiar: the sauces found in our kitchens, on our tables and in our memories.
The beginning of the sauce family.
2018 → PRESENT
A growing collection of 30+ original AZN Sauce of Love works.
Explore the sauces, illustrations and objects that have become part of the series over the years.
AVAILABLE
Currently available in the shop.
ARCHIVED
No longer available, but permanently part of the AZN Sauce of Love archive.
RETIRED
No longer produced.
Archive coming together piece by piece.
AZN Sauce of Love was created by Shawna Chan in 2018 and continues to evolve as an original illustrated series.
From early sketches and research to a single APHM risograph poster and 30+ works and counting, the archive traces an ongoing exploration of food, culture, memory and home.
2018 → PRESENT
30+ ORIGINAL WORKS
Some AZN Sauce of Love works are still available in the shop.
