Book Project

For the latest Surface Research assignment, we had to somehow involve a book. What I chose to do for my project is show my Russian heritage. I made a box which looks like my Russian passport with faceless handmade Matryoshka dolls inside. The dolls are a symbol of my family now and past. The pages of Russian text inside the book are from a textbook I used when I was four years old in Moscow and learning the Russian language. The box enters into my heritage and is slightly opened as I am the first in my family to move out of Russia. The opening is a gateway to other places.