“red on coffee, cotton and grass” (2024)

Being away from home and starting fresh has made me feel underdeveloped at times. i often struggle to put words to my art and drawing has been a reliable way to express thoughts and lingering emotion.

In a personal understanding, ‘underdeveloped’ represent the daily struggles of life. As someone living in a foreign country, we sure have our own set of challenges. However, these struggles feel small for me, compared to what the Palestinian people had to endure until today. Their resilience has been an inspiration for me in most corner of life, living and being human.

The poppy flowers (Anemone Coronaria) on the curtain symbolize their resilience and sacrifice. The curtain itself responds to the space, as it’s something before you entering a house, where inside there’s a kitchen, living room, shelves full of trinkets, wall full of memories and a garage. The curtains also serves a duality of division and unity, physically separates spaces while closed and also provide connections when opened. In contrast to that, the mural on the glass – people looking away whenever you look at them, reflects a disconnection i felt lately as if we are living in a different reality.