My practice reconstructs memory and loss through architectural spaces, exploring home, displacement, and the experience of in-betweenness. In At the Threshold, I recreate the large windows of my grandmother’s house in Iran using handmade paper and traditional silk fabric (Termeh). Through projection of the window image and sound recordings of my family’s conversations within the house, I create a threshold between presence and absence, life and loss, light and shadow, spaces shaped by erasure and migration. Some windows gradually fade or fall apart, mirroring experiences of loss, fragmentation, and displacement. My grandmother’s house was the center of my family and my childhood. I remember sitting beside her as she sewed, watching her hands move through fabric while I played nearby. Years later, the house was demolished to make way for road construction. In the process of creating these windows, I sew my heritage into fabric and thread memory into paper, fragile yet enduring, like roots that remain despite displacement. Underlying this work is Iranian mysticism, particularly the concept of alam-e mesal (the imaginal world), a realm that bridges the material and the spiritual, where time and place dissolve. Beyond ornament, the arch becomes a threshold between worlds; the Persian garden and central courtyard evoke visions of paradise; and the cypress tree, an enduring symbol of life, womanhood, resilience, and freedom, reappears in forms of paper and fabric. The traditional boteh motif woven into termeh, known in the West as paisley, originated in Iran and is widely understood as a stylized cypress tree, carrying centuries of cultural associations with endurance, renewal, and spiritual transcendence. Through these elements, At the Threshold becomes a space where memory, loss, and cultural inheritance continue to exist between what remains and what has disappeared. This ongoing body of work was first presented in my Mid-Residency Exhibition at CalArts in 2026 and continues to evolve through performances, as well as new related paintings and sculptures.