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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
Revelation is a video work that oscillates between the gestures of concealing and revealing the Arabic word Iqra, the first word revealed to the Prophet Mohammed. I re-imagine this Quranic story and place my own hands as the subject to receive and bury the word. In our present day the words of the Quranic revelation however… ⊕
The Table is a video diptych of gestures that emerge from my subconscious where I tap into a lineage of women who have come before: those who washed by hand, made rotis, ground up spices, swaddled, wrapped and comforted. By wrapping myself in the long tablecloth, I am the baby, the young child and also the grandmother wrapped… ⊕
The image on the screen shows the artist as she gathers, swaddles, compresses and embraces endless yardage of white fabric.
How do I reconcile being on stolen land with my mother’s experience? And my children’s experience of being of mixed ancestry? The chai is being poured out of the copper vessel into the bone china tea cup. The tea cup is inherited from my husband’s grandfather. The audio is the sound of a buffalo stampede that… ⊕
Confess Conceal takes as its starting point the metaphor of the curtain which symbolizes the segregation of various domains of our lives, be they public/private, inside/outside, or male/female. The notion of “purdah,” which means curtain in Urdu, refers to the gender segregation in Muslim society. I was interested… ⊕