My First Project at DCE

I signed up to study at Design Centre Enmore for Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design in 2007. I have no background of design study before and first time study in Australia, OMG, I felt like I was drowning. I kept asking myself what I have done in those days because I couldn't understand what I was doing. I was struggling with Australian slung, art terms, jargon, strange idea, cultural shocks and fatigue... Now it's all memory and big laughs..

My first project is making egg cup. An egg up to hold soft boiled egg. My feeling for egg cup is blurred. I hate soft boiled egg. My mum forced me to eat soft boiled egg when I was a girl. She said it would give me more proteins. Imagine eating soft boiled egg for everyday. My little dog was life saver for me because he always finishes up my quota eggs.

In Burma, if you are sick, the family will give you soft boiled egg and bread. It is very popular as recovery food after illness. Others are eating colourful curries, chillies and various flavours of food while you are eating white creamy egg. No.. No.. No...I hate that moments.

But I had to do research about egg cups and eating soft boiled egg culture. It opened my eyes. I was surprised that there was a way to eat soft boiled egg to have better taste. There was table etiquette for eating soft boiled egg. Wooh..

I was crazy between the project I have to make which will be marked and my personal feeling. How you could create a thing that associated with your dislike? I did make an egg cup at the end and I couldn't believe myself. I also found myself that I hold lots of things in my heart somewhere and now I found a way to use them.
you never know where the beginning and end in egg.

Whenever my mum gave me soft boiled egg, I hated to eat it. I didn't realsied her warmest thoughts for me, to grow as a healthy person with enough nutrition. After being away from her, married and living with my own family, I realised so many things about my parents that I have never thought in that ways. Actually my mum was giving me her love and care to me. I accepted soft boiled egg with my two hands. (this is Burmese traditions - a manner of respect to elderly people by receiving thing with two hands) I didn't show thanks for that.

In Australia, a bunch of flower has been sent or given to someone to show thanks and remembrance. I should send a bunch of flower to my mum to say thanks for what she did. I chose my favourite flower, Magnolia for her. I am giving bunch of magnolia flowers to my mum.



Breakfast from mum
Bronze, silicone rubber