This work began as a physical response to the paralysis felt in my body watching the horrific images and news coming out of the genocide in Gaza. I incorporated a fidget of mine in which I roll paper between my fingers and it evolved into a sculptural figure which would contain a large amount of paper napkins that were twisted and curled throughout many months, and lined with found barbed wire. The dichotomy of those two materials, soft and vulnerable, hard and sharp, evoked the psychological experience of a human body that was forced to endure violence. In this work, I considered the processes of repetition, meditation, endurance, and perseverance in the face of pain as a personal form of resistance to succumbing to physical paralysis, and as a remembrance to Levantine bodies that are continuously dislocated and displaced by war.