Searching for an Image: Palestinian American Art During Times of Catastrophe
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Imaging and Digital Arts
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The body of my work is a layered collection of fictional and non-fictionalmemory, innovative repurposing of military ephemera, clues with no mystery, ideas
about resistance that fuse together to form a parallel universe, a constellation of
artistic resistant countermeasures to communal fracture, a mixture of old and new and
unforeseen futures. I create a space where irreconcilability comes to rest; mismatched
loose ends are integrated, where bi-nationality meets further challenges. The
multiplicities of angles and paradoxes in my works take on a maximalist approach,
opening the Palestinian Pandora’s Box--that clamped chest, which once represented
an inherent redaction of narratives, as if colonial minimalism, Israeli, and mainstream
false myth could forever conceal their crimes.