Meet our participants - Katrin from Germany

"Hi, my name is Katrin and I am from Germany. 
The last 12 months I’ve spent as a volunteer in the Edith Stein House. I came back to Wroclaw from Berlin for the project. The story behind my  work is about my grandma. She was born in Breslau and grew up two streets away from the house of Edith Stein’s family nowadays known as the Edith Stein House."

Meet our participants: Margaret from Ireland

Margaret and her story about family:

"The piece I chose was the Machine embroidered piece of my Mammy who had 15 children and I was the middle child. The hearts represent her children,  6 girls 9 boys one boy was both sexes, reared male. Thomas-Jennifer is now living as a female. The family is not a close one. Daddy died in 1980, Mammy in 1992. 4 years ago 2 women came into our lives and they plus 3 others were fathered by my Daddy and our housekeeper without my mother’s knowledge however we now suspect she may have had clues to his infidelity. Mammy was a quiet docile woman. She took great care of us all. We were fed well, dressed well. She sewed all our clothes on her sewing machine powered by foot. Therefore it was fitting that I should draw her using stitches on a machine."

Meet our participants: Onur from Turkey

Onur's story:

"The work “colours everywhere” attempts to demonstrate the importance of cultural diversity by using various colours on a boy’s face. Somehow every culture has kind of connections with each other and it is going to be like theft as far as... The boy is surrounded by a house (which) implies our world brings and keeps us together."

Meet our participants - Milja from Finland

The Story of burning Turku:

"Turku burned in 1827 and it destroyed almost the whole town. 11,000 people were left homeless few hundred people were injured and 27 died. Actually Turku has burned a couple of times but this particular fire was the most destructive. I’ve heard that the fire was started by a candle so I made a picture about it."

Meet our participants: Leonie from Ireland

Leoni about her work:

"I adore the picture of the toadstools on fabric firstly because the array of fabrics on the table reminded me of my mother and of my childhood – a time rich in imagination and creativity. I also took the pieces next to me, believing that whatever is at hand suffices and after gives better results than long and laborious choosing. But from what was at hand I chose what I believe I could combine to form a picture."

Meet our participants: Jose from Spain

Jose:

"I was trying to draw someone who walks his way with a positive and hopeful attitude, making his own way, looking at the future bravely and with a strong disposition. That’s why I chose a poem of one of the most important Spanish poets (Antonio Machado), which says:

“Walker, there is no way,

You make your own way walking”

I think is a good philosophy of living your life not thinking all the time about how wonderful was your past life and wasting all the beautiful moments you could be living in the present.

So, you, and just you, are the owner of your life. You’re the writer of your history. Make it big, make it wonderful."

Meet our particiapnts: Tuuli from Finland

Tuuli made a work "Portrait of Edith Stein":

 "I made a portrait of Edith Stein by sewing by hand. I tried the technique for the very first time, but instantly I got carried away with it! I made the portrait on the second day of the workshop when I just had found out the history of the Edith Stein House and herself. I thought it was interesting and I came up with this idea."