Size: 15x16x16 inches
This piece is a sculpture that explores the fading of people and memories from my past. I can not again experience the purest form of the whole, the people being alive. When my grandma died, her things were split up and distributed among family members. Knowledge of craft and sewing were verbally passed down through the women in the family, but all I have left of her physically is a Swedish Dala Horse. The patchwork imagery of the lace depicts themes of the Dala horse, bits of memories I gleaned from my grandma and her Swedish heritage, but is fragmented, and various shades of off-colored white, as the memories get diluted as time passes. The sculpture takes the form of a lamp to heighten the awareness of distance between me and memories I hold onto through the separation of object and shadow. The physical materiality draws attention to the craft of sewing, a trait I learned from my mother, who learned from her mother. Although I can never grasp the full experience of my grandmother again, memories and objects of significance can take new forms and be pieced together as I journey and pass my own knowledge on.
