As an artist, I always thought of myself being a world citizen and realized my dreams through a vision that allowed me to be in international museums. Despite hailing from a controversial Palestinian background, I chose peace over turmoil and was determined to show the world, the heritage value of my nationality.
I use various methods to create textiles, using aesthetic, harmonious, and abstract shapes influenced by the Islamic cultures, both historical, and contemporary cultures. With my abstract work that expresses culture and religion as an inspiration for modern lifestyles, I aim to generate dialogue and a sense of real involvement with the audience. She uses her creativity, imagination, compassion, and curiosity to create narratives with intense value.
“As a designer/artist, my work engages with Islamic art as a living form of art that endlessly sculpts daily life. I aim to go beyond the visual perception of Islamic art to investigate an embodied participatory language through which I represent it. My work blurs the boundaries between humans and objects in a totality that brings forth the vibrancy and harmony of Islamic art. The meeting of materials, colors, shapes, orientation and patterns in composition enables the viewer to observe the work as an embodied universe of symbolic meaning, often showing concern with the path we take through life. Drawing on embroidery as a tradition from the Levant region, I constantly attempt to modernize and enhance the methods by playing with technologies and multimedia to experiment with the idea of transparency and reversing the function of a material.”