Artist Statement 

Christmas Breaking is an animated short drawn from Sabrina’s grandmother’s passing in 2010, told through the eyes of her thirteen-year-old self. The film revisits the shock of grieving during the holidays, when private loss collides with the weight of a traditionally joyful season. Using the technical and communicative skills she has developed as an artist, she gives form to that younger perspective, translating a coming-of-age moment through imperfect, reimagined fragments of memory.  

This work is part of her larger research project, Melancholy Comfort, which explores how different storytelling forms can hold space for mourning. She is interested in the paradox of grief: its heaviness alongside its intimacy and strange warmth. Through an imperfect, nostalgic and childlike aesthetic, moments remain ephemeral, acknowledging that these spaces cannot be re-experienced in the same way again.