Sara Khatun; [Author]

Shwettaj Jahan Tithi; [Facilitator]

Me in the mirror (embroidery)

Fultola (embroidery)

Embroidery (EMB)

Decorative

Sara Khatun spends a lot of time in front of the mirror. She is a cheery and carefree soul because she has no husband to deal with. Sara Khatun used to put on makeup in front of a big mirror back home in Myanmar but her mirror in her shelter in camp is very small.

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.