This paper reorganises the author’s body of works produced during her Master of Fine Arts study from 2015 to 2019. Reflecting on her initially personal association with the use of printmaking techniques, the author examines the gradual progression with the method and the establishment of the connections between herself and others, the society, objects, environments, spaces etc, before further imagining their possibilities and symbolic aspects. ‘Death Star Excavating’ reveals the author’s pursuit of the self as well as artistic development. Though recollections of religious rituals with which her birth family have been profoundly connected to, she explains the adoption of the concept of the ritual and discusses the necessity of the repeating body movements in her work, how she perceives the world through familiar patterns of labour, reproduction and transmission of messages essential to printmaking. And when these daily perceptions are converted into visuals, they are revealed in the form of prop-like objects or symbolic images. In this way, objects serve as a field for communication, where personal experiences are passed onto others, and, after various experiments on their effects and qualities, eventually become the physical materials that function as the extension of the author’s body, ultimately establishing the connection between the creative self and others.