Day 12 - I started a new project that initially my dad inspired me to. He gave me a small fragment of a rug he cut with a long thread connected to. It reminded me of a sculpture I did called “Dream”. My dad is very inspiring and creative. He plays music, he paints, he writes and truly a nature lover. We talked about an art piece that can expand the idea of rug using ceramic tile and thread. And I started making the first series of tile which is going to be part of an art installation.

Day 10 - This is Gingko leaf, native to East Asia. Very delicate and beautiful. It is part of the “The Memory of Leaf” series. Don’t know yet what is her memory. I just sewed her like I wrote her. I was worried about her during the sewing process. And this delicate beauty broke her stem. I look at her. I want her connected to what she has lost. I sewed the broken piece because I want to hold her safe, to protect her and to keep every piece of her.

Day 9 - In this project calls “The Memory of Leaf” I was inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, an American modernist painter born in 1887. She quoted about flowers that “in a way—nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small—we haven't time—and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.” In my drawing series, I sew a variety of leaves on a kraft paper to write them like a memory. During the process, I come close to the details of the leaves, the beauty, the lines, the transformation of colours, the shapes, the differences and the similarities. I become the leaves. It takes time to look at a leaf closely, and maybe it is not necessary to do that. So, in this series, I aim to convey the viewer to read the memory of leaf; to read the memory of self.