medium: installation: embroidery on dress.

year: 2011

Text reads: ‘You have not changed. A father is there to give his children what he has. Don’t forget me. Don’t neglect me’. 

The piece reflects the vulnerability of remembrance and longing for intimacy through the relationship between a father and his estranged daughter. Phrases are taken from conversations the pair have at their long-awaited reunion and embroided on to the dress she wore at the time of separation. 

Acting as a point of departure from a static view of home and childhood, the piece offers itself as an object of recollection that shows that if ever there was a panacea for internal displacement, time is it; time it is.