Thematically, this piece concerns the power of a parent to alter a child’s emotional state. A sour tone of voice, a sneering facial expression, or a threatening gesture can turn upside down the life of a child. Those memories retain the capacity to sting decades later. We can only bear to recall their emotional pain for a split second. It is that moment which I capture in the fleeting transformation of this room. This tableau stages a kind of play in which the lead character, the artist, enacts such an event from her own past.