The topic of my Bridge 1 archive was nature, which was supposed to be a metaphor for my childhood memories and identity, so I was initially thinking of making a project that centered around childhood. However, I also wanted to create something symbolic and was attracted to the Japanese term kintsugi\u2014the act of fixing broken pottery with gold, symbolizing the embrace of one\u2019s flaws. I wanted to implement some aspects of gold into my project, which I decided to use as a symbol of hope. The idea that I had in mind was a woman\u2019s head rising out of a tulip, crying tears of gold. The tears are falling upward, manifesting into a bird (specifically, a dove), which stands on a branch and tilts down toward the woman, seemingly offering her consolation. I wanted this idea to be a statement on finding hope after a period of misery\/suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15732,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-15731","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrative-studio-seminar-2","tag-visual-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n