Letter to my un born child - Limited Edition 1 of 1 Artwork

My artworks are mainly autobiographical and I try to recreate those personal experiences through my art. I use my own hair as a thread to stitch clothes to fashion baby dresses in order to give them an intimate touch, that build the unbreakable bridge of ownership, my inseparable part. It was a tradition once to teach embroidery and sewing in our home and schools in Bangladesh. I also designed and sewed my own clothing, especially Sari, Kamij and Shawl. I also use needles, the symbol of healer, use to create bond and my hair, dead yet constantly growing hair to express the eternal cycle of life imbibed with love and promise. New life grows inside of the womb of a mother and later born as a child. My creations are my children and they are growing outside of my body nourished by my love and imagination. I would like to communicate with my unborn child, through my art, they are as real as the biological children I might have I collect my discarded and uprooted hair, all I store with care. I feel them with care that I have never received from any one. I want to give them a place in my art. The process of collecting, cleaning and storing hair one by one is like a ritual for me, a carefully arranged activities like taking care of an infant. This is also a way to develop a kind of bilateral relationships with myself, I am my mother and I am my child. The moments we define as our life in continuum of time becomes significant as we weave our love around the people we care and the way we communicate our stories and made the fabric of life.