I see threads and yarn as metaphors for human connection, for the ecosystems that we create and destroy. I use fiber as language when language fails me. Translating the complexity of my Palestinian and Irish American heritage into fiber installations. Fiber allows me to speak through universal languages of touch, memory, and home. 

I embrace the centuries old traditions of Tatreez and crochet, and filter my diaspora identity through them. Tatreez is traditional Palestinian cross stitching, a practice that holds a wealth of iconography to stitch a colonized landscape. Every stitch comes together to create something new and old, and to speak to generations of the displaced. 

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