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The reason I chose to create a pillow is because it captured my personal memories of childhood while referencing my cultural background. This work was a fundamental element to re-building the bridge that connects me to my family and culture. The work started with the memory of my grandmother’s embroidery work on pillows. I found that the repetitive methods reflect my every day issues I deal with. It helped me to identify with my culture, to express and communicate ideas around loss and culture.I want to capture a memory and a movement in the glass, to give a sense of something present and alive, just like feelings and memories. But, at the same time, I hope to evoke a calm feeling, where yes, something is missing, but not something necessarily lost.
The material qualities allow me to represent and examine ideas around my personal experience of loss and culture. The qualities of transparency, fragility and weight of glass are particularly appropriate. They are a metaphor of a window to examine ideas about the heaviness of feelings that we can’t see, but are within ourselves.