Fragments
Exhibited at Craft Victoria, 2024

Fragments was beaded for my daughter who was in the womb as I made this work — between me and the loom, at a house by the ocean. Within the beading are fragments of stories from her great grandmother, grandmother and donor that I wanted to remember to tell her when she grew up. This is the translated text within the beading:

Tapioca is crushed and dried on big concrete pads it has a sour starchy smell.
The red of betel nut.

Somebody was handing the kids through the window. I remember the tanks coming through my father’s orchard. The castro (castle) was one room made of stones. There were seven of us living there. We had a well, and mostly lemon trees. The Nazis took the cow.

We would crush glass and stick it to the kite tail. The wooden house was surrounded by lots of vegetation, it was like a jungle to me. It backed onto a canal and a small banana plantation. Behind it was an army base. Kim had a little boat that was big enough for me to sit in. I think it was red.

Fragments, 2024
Glass beads, 24k gold, thread
22cm x 66cm
Beading in Tone Code V1