Jannatara; [Author]

Shwettaj Jahan Tithi; [Facilitator]

Me in the mirror (embroidery)

Fultola (embroidery)

Embroidery (EMB)

Decorative

Whenever Jannat Ara looks at the mirror, she wonders if her husband took another wife because she is not fair and beautiful. Jannat Ara also wonders why she loses and gains weight drastically. She used to love doing makeup in front of the mirror but does not like to look at it when she is sad.

The art facilitator faced difficulty at first to make the women understand how to embroider this project, but they quickly created it once they understood. Single women often spend more time looking in the mirror and talking to themselves compared with married women, who are too occupied with work and children to find any time for themselves. The ones who do, feel upset that mirrors in the camp are much smaller than the ones in Myanmar. Most of these women avoid mirrors when they are upset or lose weight, but all are grateful for the invention of mirrors because, without them, they would be unable to see their reflection.