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REAL STORIES
The work I create is strongly linked to how I experience my mixed identity. As I was born in Ethiopia and adopted to the Netherlands. I find myself feeling like I lived in between two worlds. Where these two worlds overlap a third world was created. The objects I make are an expression of how I perceive my third world. I want to show the realm where the blur of these two worlds exists, as together they create the portal to my third world. My third world creates a surrealistic place that conveys a feeling of culture that does not belong anywhere. Conveying through imagery is how I adapted, conscious and unconscious to both cultures. I use the in-between world to comprehend my reality and create the illusion that I know where I belong.


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Kalkidan Hoex emphasizes the significant role of representational power in his work, stating that jewelry can be seen as a wearable sign of political affiliation or social position and that her pieces, when mixed with other mediums of work, show the real where a new world exists, highlighting the surrealist nature of his work.