In the mid-1960s, Daisy Brand studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, just across the road from the MFA, where she majored in ceramics. Her works, including this one, were often rooted in her Holocaust experiences, specifically being deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1944 along with her father, sister, mother. Only she and her sister survived. Her forms and imagery are deliberately ambiguous, hinting at thresholds of landscape and architecture drawn from her memories. Ceramics captivated the artist for their firing processes, stating "somehow the fascination for me is that the fire in this case creates, rather than destroys, which I hope to apply to my life as well.” This is the first time this work has been on display at the MFA since it was acquired.

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