Memory of Childhood

Theresa Waryanti was born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. When Theresa was a little girl, she had plenty of toys made of clay. Most of them were piggy-banks with animal designs, such as a rooster, a deer, an elephant and a turtle. None of them were glazed but they were just colourfully painted. Her father kept adding her collection with tiny clay toys, among others in the form of a horse and a frog. The frog was partly made of thick paper designed as a bellow, she could make it squeek. She also had a few clay whistles which were fun to blow. The one she liked the most was a rooster of more than three feet tall. She had a great pleasure riding on the back imagining herself riding a horse.

These sweet memories of playing with the clay toys had motivated her to project her fantasies on mini decorative piggy banks. She felt it was a shame that nowadays children play with different toys. Clay toys like hers are no very hard to be found. She wanted to keep the memory of her childhood in her work so that others could see and keep them in their memory, too.