This must be the place

At the core of my work is an exploration of spatial inequalities and the challenges that oppressed groups face in constructing place and establishing a sense of belonging.. My work is driven by a deep sense of displacement experienced after a 12 year old civil war forced my family and I to immigrate to the United States. My work exists in the margins. For the past 4 years, I’ve been exploring questions about identity in the margins. I view the margins both where extreme violence and pain happens, but also as a place for resisting, dreaming, healing and thriving. The images in, This must be the place, include still life arrangements, landscapes, and portraits that represent and attempt to piece together what my home in the margins looks like. As well as a reconciliation, acceptance and celebration of the immigrant experience that seeks to center my experience and place in the world outside of the trauma of displacement; thus creating a place that allows for joy, beauty, pleasure, slowness and decadence.