New Work
Remembrance, May 2026
Cut paper
30x44 inches, 77 x 110 cm
“Remembrance” is the second work in this series.
A few days before finishing Garden of Eden, I dreamed of this piece: Remembrance. I understood it as the next stage of my grieving process—an exploration of the role of ritual and community in mourning. Just as elephants mourn their dead, it felt natural that they would become my teachers in this work. As elders, they carry the memory of those who passed before them. Through them, I explore what it means to belong, including our connection to the unseen: the ancestors who remain with us, quite literally, in our bones; the rituals that bind us across generations; our relationship to the land; and the multi-generational experience of migration. At its heart, Remembrance is about grief, memory, continuity, and the threads that tie us to one another across time.
Garden of Eden, January 2026 Cut Paper
22x30 inches/ 55x76 cm
Grief came in like a storm. Just when things seemed to hit bottom, a new bottom was excavated. New ground had to be found. I wasn’t sure I could find it. It felt like jumping down a dark well with no bottom in sight.
Meanwhile this piece began. Somewhere between heaven and hell. War continued. My mother passed away. I became an orphan. My body changed. Time passed. I lost things that I could never get back.
My sense of self was shaken in cycles of loss and grief, survival and rebirth.
All the while, I dreamt of a little girl in Iran. Caught in cycles of suffering and pain and survival and hope. I dreamt us meeting in the Garden, inhaling the scent of lemons, smiling at the rising sun.
I began the Garden of Eden over a year ago. For me it has been a meditation on the fruits of grief— regeneration, wisdom, humility and awe.
I invite you to walk with us here in all of our humanity. In our sainthood, and our sinning. If you notice yourself falling asleep in the garden, rest. Then wake up. And start again.