Personally Speaking - I Carry You In My Heart
I worked with 11 pairs of caregivers and their loved ones with intellectual disabilities from Rainbow Centre, MINDS and Y-STARS (YMCA Y Art Programme). Over the course of three months, I conducted a series of workshops where they learnt to create clay vessels that represented the relationship they share.
Working with clay teaches one to be patient, sensitive, gentle, firm and open-minded. Caring requires the same approach; it is important to understand each other in order to care effectively as everyone gives and receives love differently.
The process of making the vessels had many transitory and repetitive steps, which paralleled the highs and lows of caregiving; the joy and the pain, the frustration and determination, the pride and disappointment, the growth and the fear, and the giving and taking.
I used clay leftover from the workshops to create sculptural representations of my understanding of relationships in caregiving. Bulbous and stacked, the sculptures embody support and balance, the foundation of a strong relationship.
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Video by SPROUD
Music by Ferry
