Wa naraftam

scrap fabrics, canvas, paint, and ink, 2023.

This handmade doll is crafted from discarded paintings and scrap fabrics, and repeats the words “and I didn’t go” in Farsi. It reflects on the current condition of displaced and diasporic communities who are uprooted from one land to another, and moving as if dictated by forces that seem beyond individual control as innocent bodies are bargained with as currency of the war economy.