Earth Bodies

Black brown earth riot and golden, top detail, 2023, paper pulp on foam, stiffened yarn, turmeric, coffee grinds, acrylic.
Photo credit: Jacob Sait Ermete

Black brown earth riot and golden, detail, 2023, paper pulp on foam, stiffened yarn, turmeric, coffee grinds, acrylic. Photo credit: Jacob Sait Ermete

Black brown earth riot and golden, bottom detail, 2023, paper pulp on foam, stiffened yarn, turmeric, coffee grinds, acrylic. Photo credit: Jacob Sait Ermete

Installation shot of Black brown earth riot and golden at Arab American National Museum, MI.
Photo credit: Jacob Sait Ermete

Rooted, 2023

Spiral body, 2024

Pulped, 2024

Cyclic, 2022, monoprint on paper, 31 x 32 inch

Cyclic detail, 2022, monoprint

Cyclic detail, 2022, monoprint

The Carriers/Breakers, 2022, watercolor, acrylic, embroidery thread, ink, on cut out paper, 42 in x 34 in high

The Carriers/ Breakers installation shot, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY

Gate, 2022

Flight, 2018, Paper, ink, acrylic, lace, fabric, stiffened canvas, 6 ft. tall x 5.5 ft

For many years, I revisited the viral image of “the blue bra woman,” an unnamed protestor from Tahrir Square who was viciously assaulted by the police in 2011. I was finally able to rework drawings of her figure enough to make this mixed media piece, caught between flying and falling.

Two of the relief pieces in conversation at Trestle Gallery

Midnight Turned Itself Over, 2020, Canvas, acrylic, plaster, wire, crochet, fabric, 4 ft x 7 ft x. 6.5 in

For Nadia Murad, 2018, Paper, acrylic, watercolor, 37 x 19 in

Waking Roses Are Dynamos (title from Etel Adnan poem) 2019, mixed media wall piece, variable dimensions

The essential form was reworked from an ancient Egyptian painting of a dancer, then her head became a cocoon made of camouflage fabric and twisted wire.

Waking Roses Are Dynamos, 2019, detail of top

Waking Roses Are Dynamos (title from Etel Adnan poem), 2019, detail