Recipe in Exile

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Recipe in Exile tackles a very personal yet universal story about tradition, family heritage and adaptability in

the face of conflict and immigration. Due to my personal attachment to the topic, I have chosen to focus on

Syrian-Armenians, whose current plight bears some semblance to the struggles of their Ottoman-Armenian

predecessors. My story spans a hundred years, juxtaposing the lives of two immigrant women from the same

family and linking them through the thread of culinary tradition. Given my fondness for draftsmanship, I took

advantage of the morphing and transitional quality of 2D frame by frame animation especially in regards to

conveying the passage of time. And though rendered digitally, I was inspired by the textures and gradients

found in analog painterly mediums, which have added a certain dimension and warmth to my work, suitable to

the familial nature of my subject matter.