In an interview with Mhanna Durra, a painter based in Jordan, he described the effects that political events in Palestine had on the practice of painting as, “People would paint a dove, and the dove would look like a frog… and they would call it my homeland”. This lecture performance takes the duality embedded within the collapse of two creatures, two symbols -the dove and the frog- as an entry point to explore representation and symbols in politically engaged art.

Paradise 2 (2016)
2013 and 2017 digital prints, and newspapers collaged on paper (various sizes from 30 x 50cm to 120 x 40cm
This is an ongoing series of collages in which the aesthetics of the paintings created by Arab artists in response to the occupation and colonization of Palestine is explored. These works take the different aesthetics of these paintings as a starting point for a series of collages in which different aesthetics and forms are explored; one time its the excessive, over repres