Timelines Series

The newest series of paintings, Timelines, speaks of identity, language, society, diaspora, human nature, relationships...interweaving figures within brushstrokes inspired by the movement of Arabic letters. Painting figures found on my timelines is a way for me to reflect and speak on our shared human experience, and how often us humans are a “Collision” of “opposed ideas”, changing through the journey of time and identifying more with certain parts of ourselves during different times. We all share memories, dreams and hopes, love and love lost, loss, and layers of understanding. And often those of us ethnically associated with the Middle East (or another identity as such) experience these tensions twofold, with so much more left unsaid.