The work is an installation of 16 pieces. 15 glass pieces with the copper wire tent. It is about my childhood memories and memories of my mother; sadly those are dark memories about neglect and abuse. Working with those memories in glass resulted in dark 'lumps' of grief. Connected to each other and with a copper mesh tent they form a whole. The tent glows a bit in the dark. My thoughts and cries are legible in glass texts on the inside and outside of this shelter. There are about 35 of these texts. I used crocheted doilies to slump the glass through. These are the same doilies as my mother made. At my 'home', back in the days of me as a child, these doilies always had to lay neatly straight. Memories have a live of their own. They come and go, are bold or modest, clear or dull, they transform, distort, stick, fade, holes appear, they crumble and disappear in oblivion. A process that can be seen well in this piece. There is a parallel too between showing the unattractive and dangerous sides of glass and showing that children's lives are not necessarily happy and safe but can be dangerous and dark. In the photo the shelter is set up as a tent, but it can also be set up as a tarp; partly above the lumps of grief. This reduces the total space required. I prefer to sell the work in its entirety so that all the pieces can stay together.

Tent with texts: 140 x 270 x 122 cm, Total arrangement 16 to 21 m2 I Fusing and slumping in crochet doily, hot manipulation. Pate de verre for texts I Glass, stainless steel wire, copper mesh I 2021