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As a kid, I always had my nose in books. The vivid scenes of the fantasy world would play out in my head as if a movie. This piece was made in part with my inner child, wanting to revisit those nostalgic story books.

This image pictures a young queer person shouting in delight at the 2022 Minneapolis Pride Festival. It was the subject's first time at the festival, and like many members of the LGBTQ+ community, they felt an immense sense of love and belonging from…

This photo is part of an image series created by photographer, Josie Campbell, titled "Chicago Avenue on Fire." The series was created to document the damage of the riots that broke out across the Minneapolis-St. Paul area following the murder of…

This image pictures a student frantically running through a maze of bookshelves, trying to find someplace safe. The photo is part of a series of images that the artist created as her final project for a course on Ukrainian film. The goal of the…

I consider this my first exploration of rebar as a material and as a symbol of my Arab identity. As a material, I find it compelling that rebar is can only be seen when a building is destroyed, otherwise it is invisible. As the child of a Syrian…

In this print, a reversal of roles is seen between the hanging feet and the the clothes piled up on the ground. Here I am thinking of feet as vessels in in of themselves, not just part of a vessel, our body. The purpose of feet for those who…

This painting depicts a representation of my younger self, reinvented in the image of father. The inspiration for this painting came from a photograph of my father standing barefoot on top of the roof of his first house here in the U.S. Hence I…

Based on a photograph from my childhood, this painting depicts my grandmother, myself, and my older brother. I am interested in figures with their backs turned to the viewer, which is one of the reasons I chose to paint this photograph. The ambiguity…

This work addresses my Arab identity reconstructed in my fathers image. His work shoes that he labors in, are tied down on a block of cement with rebar, a material I use to represent my (or our) Arab identity. Inspired by repeating moments in my…

A sheep in a pasture at Stonehenge