Comfort and Wandering is an installation that was originally created for the San Francisco Jewish Museum. In the original installation I divided the square room into two sections. One area was painted a warm yellowish white and labeled with the word “comfort” and the other area was painted a cool blue-gray white and labeled with the word “wandering”. On the “wandering” side I hung objects that were made from the 1950’s American convenience foods, which I had grown up eating at home at my parents’ house. On the “comfort” side of the gallery I tried to evoke the smells of my Bubbie and Zaide’s home by making objects that were made from the homemade foods in their Yiddish cultural home. This work is my own personal inquiry, drawing from the memories of my experience growing up informed by this bicultural heritage.