"These are memorial pieces for my mother and her mother. The pieces placed on the frames and aside the designs belonged to my grandmother. She is the lady with the dotted dress and round glasses. The necklace with the photo, belonged to my grandmother. It is a photo of my mother, a little girl, during the WWII.

My grand mother had kept tools that belonged to our ancestor, whose father had found refuge in France coming from Poland, a much bigger country then. It stayed a mystery why he left Poland, and if he was from Poland. His family name is not from Poland. So,

I am not sure where he truly originated from before finding refuge in France. He married a French lady. His son became a glazier decorator. My grandmother unveiled the story and his son' s glass cutting tools the day I had told her I intended to become a stained glass artist. She gave it to me. And I placed the glass cutters along my grandmother portrait. I wanted memorials for my mother and her mother showing the mystery of the ancestor who had chosen to leave a country and find refuge to build a new life. Many of us have refugees roots."