"Sin/Frontera Be a crossroads"-- 2024. 33" x 23." PRINTS ONLY. Ink, ampersand, literature, & metallic gel on paper. After Gloria Anzalduá, Bapsi Sidwa & Annie Dillard. ("Which of your neighbors are you not going to betray"/ "How many strangers have you had occasion to hold in your arms?")
Mercy-- 2018-2022. 25 1/8" x 33." Ink, prayer, & chalk on paper. After Islamic name for God, Al Rahman, "The Merciful."
Ruptures & Mirrors 2022 27 3/4" x 33 7/8." Ink, gesso, acrylic, & metallic gel on paper.
Whose? ---2024. 43" x 30." Ink, poem, recycled guns, & metallic gel pen on paper. ("Sometimes love just means you'll stay/& witness/ the passage of one body/ out of the darkest room.")
Mim/ play study-- 2018. 25 1/8" x 27 1/8." Ink on paper.
Murmurations--2022-2024. 32 1/2" x 22 1/8." Iridescent acrylic, recycled guns, ink, poem, & metallic gel. ("To love you I have to see you/slant between moments/alone in the mystery.") After Rilke. Dots done in in 20 min intervals between checking stats of friend with heart condition.)
Play Study--2021. 38 5/8" x 27. 5/8." Iranian ink on paper.
Rest & Refusal/No Rest--2023. 32 x 22 1/8." Ink & graphite on paper. After Bahai Shehab & Tricia Hersey.
There is such wisdom in illegibility--2020. 24" x 30." Ink & literature on paper. After Toni Morrison's "Jazz." ("Make me, remake me. You are free to do it & I am free to let you. Because look... where your hands are. Now.")
Love letters in American Ink/ "A Woman is Talking to Death"--2023. 16 5/8" x 12 5/8". Graphite, ink from recycled guns, poem, metallic gel on paper. After Judy Grahn. ("We do each other in, that's a fact./ To my lovers I bequeath the rest of my life.")
Grace--2023. 32 1/4" x 24 1/8." Metallic acrylic, chalk, poem, prayer, metallic gel, translations, ink made from guns on paper. After Islamic shahada, José Martí's "Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca" & Leonard Cohen's "Now it's too late to turn the other cheek." )
Complicated Figures--2024. 24" x 30 1/4." Acrylic, metallic gel, gesso, ink made from guns, poem on paper. ("All my exiles are related.")