Sarah Samlalsingh
Tangled Roots (Link: Aja)
Jewellery
2022
Brass
70 x 35 mm
This link dictates the "simple" relationship I shared with my paternal grandfather. I only had the pleasure of knowing him for a few years in my early childhood which resulted in this limited and diffracted sense of who he was and what he meant to me. I remember very little of him, but in the few specifics that I do remember (sharing morning cereal, his strong love for his multiple dogs, and going out of his way to get me sweets) , in those moments shared - he taught me a lot of positive values and moral ethics that shaped the person I became, and are becoming.
Work by
Sarah Samlalsingh
Jewellery
“In Trinidad, I am Canadian. In Canada, I am Trinidadian. Anywhere I am, I am nowhere according to the labels of identity ascribed to diasporic people by those who have taken the land for themselves....” [More]