UNEARTHING STORIES FROM THE CORE

Acts of Disappearances (Gilgit-Baltistan GB)

2023

Without bodies to wear them, the caps in the landscapes provoke reflection on
the annihilation of social structures in the face of climate devastation,
and also on the healing potential that nature offers—if listened to.

This work is a reckoning with landscapes of displacement and erasure.
A tribute to women’s labor and resilience.
A refuge for healing and renewal.
An honoring of the earth as a source of our sustenance: spiritual, material, embodied.
An offering; a song of survival, rising, and becoming.

Ephemeral, site-specific installations in Attabad Lake, Hunza, GB

when the mountain fell, and the river stopped
its water rose, villages submerged
a cold desert of sand dunes formed
in the devastation a lake was born
resorts and tourists populated
the people of the mountain
forgotten and displaced, the Attabad IDPs
a colony of internally displaced people
far away from their home the land that sustained
and nourished them, now a tourist resort

Site-specific installations in Attabad Lake, Hunza, GB

This project is made possible with funding support from The Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Creative Projects Grant funding from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.