This piece transforms a discarded rocking chair, an object associated with comfort, lineage, and domestic continuity, 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. Painted matte black and stripped of nostalgic warmth, the chair is recast as a monument to the illusion of “home” and the idea 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.

NOTE: This piece is not yet completed. More photos to come!