Emergence In-Between Series

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I Sit At The Threshold

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70 inches, Recycled Fiber, “Termeh” Fabric, 2025

In my work, “I Sit Upon a Threshold,” a half-cypress tree made of recycled fiber is suspended in space above a square Termeh fabric. Its form, inspired by the Persian architectural dome—rooted in the earth and reaching toward the sky—symbolizes life, eternity, and humanity’s position between material and spiritual worlds. It turns eternally on the threshold between existence and nonexistence, timelessness and time, and inside and outside worlds. The dual meaning of the cypress tree also becomes a metaphor for my immigrant experience, straddling two worlds between past and present, belonging and displacement.