ARTWORK

One of the first and most influential books I came across as I was discovering a pride in my Japanese heritage was “How to Wrap Five Eggs” by Hideyuki Oka with photography by Michikazu Sakai. There is a sense of design that permeates the Japanese culture to the extent that something as quotidian as eggs is worthy of a level of beautiful and functional design. The container is peripheral to the product that it so artfully contains, yet it holds an integral relationship to the object. It is the skin that contains the content and becomes a deserving entity in itself. Much like skin and skeleton are the packaging of our human selves, it contains the soul of person. In my sculpture, the large blue cage is the structure which holds five orbs representing my siblings; eggs separated from the world and each other yet forever bound to one another.