"The son of rabbis, my father had gone beyond religion and ethnicity, he was a Modernist. But every Passover he'd make himself matzobrei for breakfast. -David S. Frankel"

In this selection from the large-scale installation A Postcolonial Kinderhood, Elaine Reichek uses domestic objects to evoke memories of childhood and home. In her hand-embroidered samplers, she employs the craft of sewing while incorporating terse and sometimes humorous quotations that confront her complex Jewish identity. Reichek imbues this historically female practice with a critical voice that such articles of domesticity traditionally suppressed.