While considering what a facsimile appears to be, what it actually is, and where it is were the concepts that gave context to Words of Affirmation. I chose a realistic object: fortune cookies with fortunes and chose to recreate the cookie with Chinese red envelopes. For irony, I added the Americanization of what fortune cookies were usually meant for: words of affirmation. I came to this conclusion because fortune cookies originated in America but have always been part of Chinese restaurants. Then I placed these red envelope fortune cookies in context to Asian bowls on a table to recreate a Chinese restaurant.