I invite you to trace with me my mercurial geography of displacement where every doorway became a threshold of holding and releasing, between the responsibility of memory and the lightness of letting go. Mine is a story of movement across physical space, and an investigation into an archaeology of the self, excavated through the objects I choose to carry and those I dared to abandon. The Cabinet of Relational Curiosities Since leaving Lebanon in 2012, I have moved through cities like a stream...

"The American dream is the dream that our children will have it better than we did." - Terry Real

Introduction: The Gate as Threshold and Trial To be a Lebanese ceramic artist in an American MFA program is to stand at a threshold-what...