Mending could be seen as both the literal fixing of an object or the figurative mending of life . In two of the works,( Family Ties, and Mended Scroll) I used handmade paper that I had created from Blue Jeans and Palm tree fibers a few years prior. In these two works I was inspired by the paper itself and how it was a part of my story that did not yet have a resolution, the paper is something I treasured making and overtime has become torn and fragile. In mending the paper to the fabric, I could close the story for it but also begin telling a new one. I also worked with the concept of mending relationships between parent and child in Family Ties,  Mending the natural world in Mended Scroll and Things will never heal. I also worked with mending broken china in an attempt to make the cracks themselves more beautiful instead of hiding them, in a symbolic form of mending as a transformational experience.