Stars 2022 Varies Size 60 pieces Embroidered Anew Copper chain, glass and enamel 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 “Stars” refers to a night's walk he used to take me. We used to go at night looking on the stars. He try to showed me shapes in the stars and told me his stories. He insisted that I identify the figures. I wasn't able to see them, and I know he will not stop antil i will say I saw so when I gave up I was saying to him that I saw, even though I didn't understand how this stars constellation looked like a bear. photo by Oshrat Choen and Michael Shvadron