Break Through
For this piece, I decided to make something to present my background as an immigrant and incorporated it with things I did in this class. Although it was almost 9 years ago when I migrated to America, it was still hard to believe how many things I had overcome. I wanted to express how I stepped out of my comfort zone to adopt a new culture and learn a new language when I first came here. I collected a bunch of eggshells and clamshells. I attached the gold paper birds I made in my multiples project and hang them to the inside of the eggshells, so it looks like the birds are breaking the eggshells and coming out from them. I then made some little figures using the clays that are leftover and attached one clamshell to each of them. The little figures seem to come out from the shell, but sometimes the shells look like their wings. By putting the finished eggshells and figures one next to another in the clear display cabinet, it creates a nice pattern. The gold birds are the figures, and the figures are the gold birds. There are no differences between them. They both break the hardest part to be what they are now (to fly and to stand confidently). They can be me as well.
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I like how you used representational objects (paper cranes, eggs, shells, human figure) to create a more abstract pattern when you step back and view the entire thing. I would be interested to see this at an even larger scale (like a whole wall of this!) where your experience as the viewer changes depending on how close to the piece you are.
Your backstory is beautiful and you created a beautiful piece to go along with it!