Kayla Briët : Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage

Kayla Briët at TED2017
Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage  (transcript)
Summary
Culture is our civilization that shows the way of our life.
There are big differences between generations, times and places.

Heritage is a culture created in the past and having historical importance.

A time capsule is a portable container to keep something. It is filled with objects considered to be typical of the present period in history. It's buried because people can study them in the capsule much later, even if they forget them.

We create many things every day though we forget many things that are included our important ancestors and culture. When people are separated, mixed, ignored and denied identity, they became invisible they hid their customs and culture. Those are forgotten.

The speaker grew up in Southern California, her mother is Dutch-Indonesian, her grandparents lived in China as immigrants and her father was in a minority group in Northeastern.
She knew that mixed culture was herself, it's important identity and native heritage, but it'd be forgotten in time.
She works to keep, to tell them, to connect the unknown past to the present. It has to continue the unknown future.

Words in this story
norm /noun/ something that is usual, typical, or standard.
immerse /verb/ sink, plunge, soak
indigenous /adj/ native, original
reclaim /verb/ fill up, beat away, turn up