Searching for an Image: Palestinian American Art During Times of Catastrophe

Abstract

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.