For the Best
1995
Accompanying the installation is the following story:
Shortly after my arrival to Canada I began going to church on Sundays. It was recommended to my parents that Sunday school was the best place for me to learn English and adapt to Canadian culture. At age seven I was sent off with the Bests, a family who would take me to church and Sunday school. After church, I would have dinner with the Bests to learn proper western etiquette.
Memories of that time surface now and again. They are colored with sadness. I remember standing in church singing songs I didn’t like, memorizing prayers I didn’t understand, playing with friends I didn’t know and eating with a family I didn’t belong to. In my silent acceptance there were many questions. Why was this happening to me? What were my parents thinking? Didn’t they know I was afraid? Who were these strangers? Why don’t they return me to my family? What had I done to deserve this punishment? After a couple of years, the Bests family stopped coming to take me to church.
