Family Secrets

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This is using my grandmother's cookbook, full of memories and some family secrets. I glued pages together to form depth and then carved out areas for the words and pendant. Behind the window is a photo of my grandmother at a young age. When you close the book, you can open the brass door to reveal my hand lettered book with water color illustrations. The words of the poem:Family Secrets by Raymond A. Foss Little and big secrets silence, unsharing from shame, for protection blank spots in the telling of our story Carved off areas sometimes casually shared As if we knew, forgetting the secret the missing words names crossed from address books pain pushed down Missing memories scraps of childhood undiscussed.