Hedgehogs 2022 20X15X12 cm Embroidered Anew Blown glass, screen printing. Only when I grew up did I find out that Grandpa Tuvia did not exist, neither did the lion. Both were figments of my grandfather's imagination. He managed to create an entire world, made up of people and animals, that would appear in the stories he told me. I didn't know what to believe and what not, reality and imagination were interwoven. As I crochet and weave my grandmother’s embroidery anew, I create images and imaginations, as if swimming between the threads, asking again- is it real? In my B.F.A final project, each one of my works was an expression to a different story that my grandpa told me as a kid. The piece “Hedgehogs 1” refers to a night's walk he used to take me. We used to go every summer at night looking for hedgehogs, while walking he showed me shapes in the stars and told me his stories. My grandma used to make embroidery. Inspired by her embroidery I created embroidery images on the hedgehog's belly. photo by Salome Maarek and Rotem Rosen