An emigration portrait woven from three stories
Objects, like silent friends, carry within them the stories of the people whose warm hands had the chance to touch them. They are silent witnesses to our lives. Some hold no particular value for us, but there are others that we hold close to our hearts and feel a special kind of connection with. Marie Kondo – the renowned Japanese tidying consultant – follows the principle that if you pick up an object and hold it, and it brings you joy, gratitude, and warmth – you keep it. If you feel a sense of heaviness, indifference, or discouragement – you thank it and part ways with it.
Here, dear Reader, I want to speak about objects that evoke those very beautiful emotions in our hearts. I would like their stories to carry truth – the truth about a person. They should be a personal emigrant's portrait, speaking of values, of a person's depth, of their desires and yearnings. I know this will be an incomplete, fragmented portrait. But is there anything that gives a complete picture of a person? I invite you, dear Reader, to look differently at what an emigrant soul yearns for…
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