STATEMENT

I consider notions of dislocation—whether geographical, emotional, or spiritual—where the dis-order pushes the self to find safety. In my work, I explore safety through the interior body, where we can locate our original home.

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In this space of translocation, I am reconciling the feeling of belonging through several processes involving reflection and ritual in drawing, painting, and material foraging from the places I belong to moving between the UAE, Syria, Lebanon, and the US. Drawing and painting help discern the experience, while materiality, process, and sculpture embody the relationships and forms that emerge while meditating on safety, home, and the body as a moving vessel and container for attachments.

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I am melding pain with beauty as a form of hope to transform the pervasive violence that follows the bodies of people from the Levant diaspora that make up Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. A violence that has led to forced migration, seeking refuge in other lands and nations, fragmenting identities, and displacing families from each other and their homelands.

Hope exists in the new generation that escaped the holds of this greatest burden, carrying the legacy and memory of our parents and ancestors through the figments of time and place.