Beth Lipman created Belonging(s) in response to the set of eighteenth-century paintings attributed to artist Gerardus Duyckinck I (1695-1746). Duyckinck painted three generations of a Jewish family who lived in New Amsterdam (the Dutch colony that preceded New York), anchored on the figure of Abigaill Levy Franks. Beth Lipman researched the Levy Franks family and ultimately created this sculpture that references a travel trunk, casted in clear glass to reveal its contents. The glass casted objects within the trunk are visible yet frozen within the glass travel trunk—not altogether different from the partial view of the Levy Frankses’ lives afforded by the portraits themselves—an act of commemoration, leaving infinite room for the imagination.