"This series of works deals with vessels, such as cups, plates, glasses, light-bulbs and teapots, that got broken by accident. Instead of throwing them away I tried to put them in a preserved condition... The dish is taken from the place where it has fallen apart and is wrapped and "sheltered" in a thin transparent cloth. In this state the broken piece appears as something valuable that has survived its own breakage... I pass a white shiny silk thread through the wrapping where the points of fracture are... [t]herefore the embroidery represents in this series of works the line of fracture and also a restoring of the image that was once broken.
In Japan we had the tradition of repairing dishes with Japanese lacquer and golden foil - Japanese lacquer as glue, golden foil as color - this way dishes could be passed through several generations. The generation of my grand- mother still used these kind of old dishes. After the Second World War and the impact of mass production, porcelain and glass vessels became cheaper. As more cheap vessels were on the market, less respect was awarded to towards the old tradition of repairing, so that this technique was almost forgotten. Nowadays it is only used in restoring old furniture. I have always felt strange in the current situation of throwing things quickly away. This feeling was one of my motives in creating this series of works."'
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