Having been born in the Golan, a contested region littered with the archaeological and architectural marks of war; a magma-covered plateau on the brink of the Afro-Syrian Rift created by geological tumult, I'm interested in the way nations appropriate geological conditions to create self-identity, to distinguish and separate themselves from others. On the human, individual level, I find our interpersonal encounters are similarly directed by relations of appropriation, belonging, separation, dominance, and bodily boundaries.

Through sculpture, installation, drawing and photography, my practice explores the movement of bodies towards each other- be them human or social-political. I'm intrigued by the borders that supposedly separate them, and in their moment of contact: the friction caused by rubbing against each other, the intensity of the space shared between them, and the violent potential of such collision or penetration. As a sculptor, I think of these relations through negative spaces, membrane-like objects, materials of porous and absorbent qualities, and through objects that can extend through space.