

A rijsttafel is a traditional Indonesian meal that includes lots of different dishes that are shared. Rijsttafel literally translates to ‘rice table.’ It’s the meal that I drew in the last shot of the scene.

That memory is what inspired the opening of the scene! You titled your scene Rijsttafel. And at the end of the day, we would get called inside to sit down with the family to eat. He had this little tin can with food and when he shook it, all the birds would come flying. My grandad always had pigeons in the garden, and he would feed them together with me, my sister and my cousins. It’s actually my childhood that inspired this scene! My grandmother was from Indonesia, and we used to go to her house to have these big family meals. In 10 seconds, your scene tells a story of multiple generations of family sitting down for a shared meal.
