curated this mixed media assemblage for a memory box, assignment due 4th feb. was supposed to be submitted with a senses poem as the artist statement. loved the result too much *not* to share. [complete]
Artist Statement
see, hear, smell, taste, touch
Seeing my bikini takes me all the way back. To the water, which cradles the part of our island my mother is from.
I hear the waves, breaking on shore, and the jingling of my bangles—the smaller one I’ve had since I was a baby, and the engraved other that I got for Christmas later that year.
I smell many things when I think of that year; the freshness of the beach, and the unique fragrance produced by my use of the honey scented lotion, the choice in my family home at the time, fused with my all-time favorite citrusy and oriental perfume.
I taste many things, too; my mother’s best curry chicken, the starfish gummies from the shop by the main road, many many mangoes, seagrapes & saltwater.
And sometimes, I touch my passport as if it’s a portal, wishing to relive that summer again.
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