There was a bay below and mountains above.

 My work talks about borders, about crossing them, and about exchange. It initiates a dialogue between the cultures, going back and forth, digging in memory, and setting new priorities. Lost and found, erasing and revealing, disorientation and relocation, exile and belonging. Between homesick and homeseek!

 Being the daughter of a land reform officer, I grew up seeing land records, survey maps, maps recording the names of sharecroppers (bargadars), records for acquiring homestead lands for the weaker classes, maps of no man’s land, urban lands, or documents of land reform issues. One could say: I learned of the importance of land and soil in my early  childhood. Due to my father’s job, our family moved from one place to another, and in more recent years, living with such instability in temporary situations and homes helped me better understand the global issues of diaspora, migration, exile, and subsequent questions around identity.