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In 2007, Yuyi was one of several artists asked to create a snowflake that would be put up for auction to raise funds for Robert’s Snow, an online auction created by author\/illustrator, Grace Lin, and her late husband, Robert Snow, to raise funds for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The snowflake that Yuyi contributed was a depiction of the main character from her book,\u00a0Little Night \/ Nochecita.\u00a0<\/em>Below is Yuyi’s artist statement.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n “Shine is in the eye of the beholder”<\/span><\/p>\n For the second time my artwork is part of Robert\u2019s Snow: for Cancer Cure, a distinctive fundraiser consist of online auctioning more than 200 original pieces of art created on wooden snowflakes.<\/span><\/p>\n I received my wooden snowflake in the mail over the summer, right at the time I was finishing illustrations for a book and before my annual trip to visit my family in Mexico. But at last, late in August I was able to work in my snowflake.<\/span><\/p>\n I had been looking forward to the work, for I had a specific idea for this year. I was going to use one of my book characters as inspiration, Little Night, a book I painted while learning about\u00a0 the fierce fight for life of two Mexican families, the Varilla Cruz Family, and\u00a0 Asuncion\u2019s\u2019 family, whose mothers and one of the children were dealing with cancer and poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n The other part of my idea was that I wanted to create a music box\u2014something new for me, but that I have seen before in the work of some of my artist friends.<\/span><\/p>\n At last the auction will begin this Monday, and as Little Night: See Me Shine, a music box, is about to be available for bidding, it came to my attention that the description posted by the Danna- Farber foundation has led to confusion about what my snowflake is and does.\u00a0 Here is the question that has prompted: Does Little Night: See Me Shine glow in the dark?<\/span><\/p>\n It does not. My snowflake is a music box. You twist the base of piece, and it cranks the mechanism that begins a broken tune. While the tune plays, the figure of the babe standing atop of the box turns around. The music was originally a popular Christmas song, but I altered the tune by taking apart the mechanism and breaking some teeth of the steel comb.<\/span><\/p>\n To give a further insight of how I make my snowflake, I put together this video that I created with the help of my artist fiends. My husband and son were the photographers, my fiend Miguel Martinez created the music, and another friend of my provided the cording of the music box sounds.<\/span><\/p>\n And so why call it \u201cSee me Shine\u201d if it does not shine?<\/span><\/p>\n I would say that the shine is in the eye of the beholder. My snowflake is a wish. A wish I have from my own child, my beloved son, as well for the Badillo children and Asuncion\u2019s kids, which are five and have nobody else in the world but their mother.\u00a0 My wish for all of them is that they shine.<\/span><\/p>\n When I showed my writer\u2019s group my snowflake and we discussed the name of my piece, one of them sent me this writing by Marianne Williamson, which tells it all so right.:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>And so here is my wish for everybody: Shine.<\/span><\/p>\n Making See Me Shine. 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