VCA Graduate Show, Honours. 2025
Beyt Ahle (My Parents' Home)
1-4
Acrylic on Wood Block, 12 x 16 inch
18400 Stitches (198 Hours)
Tatreez on Aida Fabric
Pattern Adapted from design by @hibstitches with permission
Photography by Kim Feng Photography
1-4
Acrylic on Wood Block, 12 x 16 inch
18400 Stitches (198 Hours)
Tatreez on Aida Fabric
Pattern Adapted from design by @hibstitches with permission
Photography by Kim Feng Photography
For second-generation immigrants, the home countries of our parents are relayed through oral histories: fond retellings and nostalgic memories of place that form ‘inherited memories’. Unable to return to Lebanon, my practise serves as a means of returning to the homeland imaginatively. My work this year reflects on the distance felt from my father’s home country as a queer Lebanese-Australian, and the attempted methods to reconnect with and reclaim my personal cultural identity.
Inspired by the central theme of 'cultural roots', my practice engages with art-making as a fundamental method of reconnection, by dedicating myself to learning and continuing the various practice of art-making that are rich in my lineage – particularly painting, music and embroidery.
Through sound, translation, painting and installation, my practice aims to examine the nuances of connection, disconnection, memory and distance as framed through the diasporic experience.