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It is a question laced with parental fear. Her concern was not only about my inability to see some trivial object right in front of me, but our collective inability to see well enough to navigate in the world. And with the benefit of hindsight those worries have political dimensions that may be read as implicit in the work. In Buttons for Eyes I explore broader cultural debates around migration and identity, particularly as they have been recast in the dramatically changed context of anti-immigrant rhetoric now amplified at the highest levels of government, and which has altered the context in which migrant voices like mine are heard. Despite these weighty issues, there is playfulness embedded in the very title Buttons for Eyes, suggesting that perhaps seeing clearly calls for looking at the world in more unusual ways.

Buttons as eyes

Before I emigrated, my sister and I split our photographic inheritance arbitrarily and irreparably in half. One portion remained with her, and the other was displaced along with me, here in America. For the past decade, this archive of family photographs has been my primary source material in creating bodies of work which explore the migrant narrative and experience; albeit through a personal lens. While my need to decipher and address my family photographs is personal, my work has always touched upon universal themes, with the potential to start a dialogue about cultural differences and universal similarities. In the last year those private references and broad themes have taken on a new public significance that requires a creative response, by delving deeper into my own immigrant narrative, engaging with its personal but increasingly, if accidentally, political context. In my series, Buttons for Eyes, my concern for the past that is lost to me is still apparent, but so is my concern for the future and the losses that will come. Inevitably I too, and my experience as a migrant, will become mythologized by my children and then by their children. Making artwork about the past is my way of creating a first draft of the present. We will send you weekly news on contemporary photography. You can change your mind at any time. We will treat your data with respect. For more information please visit our privacy policy.

In this series my concern for the past that is lost to me is apparent, buttons as eyes, but so is my concern for the future and the losses that will come.

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Buttons as eyes

The buttons symbolize the fact that the other mother sees Coraline as a doll or a plaything—she wants to keep Coraline in her world and do with her what she wishes. The symbol of the buttons, however, also goes the other way. Suddenly Coraline realized how hungry she was.

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