Sitting in the park in the French concession Shanghai.Full of movements. Tea dances on the pavilion. Huddles of old men bent over fast moving games of Mahjong. Sitting in a bench under the trees a woman approaches.

I see her smile generously. ‘Hello and I pleased to meet you. I am an English teacher’. She wears denim dress and has a red ribbon in her hair. My name is Mary. After Mary after Mary Kay cosmetics. I love Mary Kay – she is my god. Mary Kay makes you beautiful. This is my story: I am trying to find my dream – I have left my village, my husband and my son and come to Shanghai to learn English and work as an English teacher. But I am sad because I think that I have lost my dream.

She carries the address of the Shanghai Mary Kay Company in her purse along with a picture of her husband. She makes a point of approaching westerners when she sees them so that she can practice her English and bring her closer to her dreams of a glamorous life in America.

You grow up and start to cross the boundaries of your local existence. The warmth of the home is traded for unknown destinations, the road begins and memories of the past carried in your heart, capturing a belonging and hope as an emotional ornament.

This series of plates and cups started very figurative, made by Judith in China to experiment and draw out a storytelling experiences around My Parade. A figurative drawn out journey about exploring the ideas around finding self, hopes, dreams and time changing dimensions.

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