“My complex and subtle sculptures address fundamental aspects of the human experience: birth, life, love, pain, death, space, and time. Having lived as a young mother through long wars and harsh refugee realities, my use of natural wool recalls the heart-warming safe feeling of my grandmother's rug-making in Baalbek, Lebanon. It also symbolizes my deep empathy with the animals' sacrifice to bring others warmth and comfort. I weave this delicate material with time-consuming patience, mixing different fibers, a few hairs at a time, to create textured surfaces. Wool engulfs my structures with comforting softness and sensitivity that contrasts with insinuated forms of mutilated body parts, creating a seductive but unsettling presence due to their dark cavities, deformities, and threatening monumentality”.
