Many lives flicker at an ambient pulse, never identified, noticed, or accounted for; histories go undocumented, buried, blurred, and abridged. As a Palestinian-American multimedia artist, my work explores my fetishicized heritage, living in a post 9/11 political climate, and the subsequent Arab Diaspora. My artistic responsibility is to repossess my cultural memory, utilize art for social change, and document a very contemporary and growing history of displacement.

As an inter-media artist, I marry craft and technology to create works that parody and critique racist beliefs and subject matters by giving shape and presence to Western stereotypes responsible for Arab-American discrimination. The use of soft materials is crucial to my work; their approachable, tactile surface invites viewers to embrace these loaded objects of discrimination without hostility, creating a tension between fearing the other and considering their meaning and humanity.