TORONTO, CANADA
SEPIDEH CHEGINI
Boghche
I didn’t intend to make a box. I intended to remember. I remembered the quiet ritual of my grandmother wrapping things in cloth—sometimes a pot of food, sometimes clothes, sometimes things too delicate to name. She would gather the corners, fold them over one another, and tie them in a knot. I didn’t know it then, but I was watching a kind of ceremony. A gesture of care. Of presence. Of holding. Boghche is a ceramic memory of that gesture.
Now, living far from where I was born, I find myself returning to that image. Not just the form, but the feeling it held. The softness. The silence. The meaning inside something so simple. As an immigrant, I often wonder what I’ve carried with me, and what I’ve left behind. This piece is my response to that question.
It’s not just a box. It’s a place to keep what matters. The things we cannot wear or frame or explain—but still need close. The folds, the knot, the weight—they all speak.
Of memory. Of movement.
Of the invisible threads that still tie us to home. And maybe, of the quiet beauty of learning to hold ourselves.
Dimensions: 7"H x 5"W x 4"D
Material: ceramic and glaze
Artwork ships: beginning october 22nd
Boghche
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SEPIDEH CHEGINI
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