Starting out as a discarded rocking chair, an object associated with comfort, lineage, and domestic continuity, transforms into a sculptural reflection on displacement and conditional belonging. Its broken woven seat is replaced with dense black tambour beadwork, where labor-intensive embellishment becomes a surface that resists the body rather than supporting it. The accumulating beads extend beyond decoration, gradually consuming the structure of the chair and disrupting its original function. This tension between adornment and disruption reflects the imperfect, fragmented nature of personal and collective narratives and the uneasy relationship between objects that symbolize connection and the experiences they may not provide. 

Painted matte black and stripped of nostalgic warmth, the chair is recast as a monument to the illusion of “home” and the cultural expectation of inherited belonging through bloodline. The work considers lineage as something unstable and non-linear, where connection is not guaranteed through origin but shaped through rupture, absence, and discontinuity.