This sculpture explores a personal memory of when I was told I was adopted. I was told at ten years old, after a beach trip, and was shown a photo album of my family made for my birth mom.
The hard balsa wood cover of the book represents how it was hard and nerve-wracking for my parents to tell me, as they did not know how I would react to being told. But once the book is opened there is warm-toned paper with soft edges to represent how everything ended up going well and how it is a warm memory for me now. The number of pages is 20 which represents the age I am now and how I still look back on the memory fondly. The stitching on the book represents that my family does not need to be blood-related to be a family as we have love which stitches us together and makes us a family. The color of the thread illustrates the mystery of what they were going to tell me and how I thought I might be getting in trouble at first, but it all ended well. The scale represents that while it was a big event in my life, the memory of it is something I want to keep close.
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