Untitled # 01, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24.”
Destructive Interference is a series of photographs that reflect my own experience as a Middle Eastern woman who moved to the US and felt the need to decolonize and re-inhabit a place in order to call it home. This project uncovers how my ‘intra-actions’ with my surroundings help me to inhabit or to survive. These black and white self-portraits attempt to communicate that making a place includes intra-actions between human and nonhuman elements, allowing individuals to overcome destructive interference.
These photographs show how we can re-inhabit a place that is simultaneously experimental and representational and question the binaries between self and others, as well as outdoor and indoor. Through this relational experience, my body intra-acts with human and nonhuman elements embedded in the place, such as time, space, light, and memory. The performativity of this experience and the playful movement between light and space allow me to capture my relational experience in conversation with matter and meaning, all of which make a place and allow for the re-inhabitation of a place.
This project reflects the idea that home is not only about inhabitation and the temporal occupation of a space; instead, it is made of many elements entangling with us. We are attached and intra-act with places and people in a particular time, and these elements are not separated from the cultural, social, political, and economic structures around us. This project attempts to communicate that our intra-actions with our surroundings, human and nonhuman, allow us to experience exchange and entanglement in various ways and helps us to call a place home. Intra-actions aid us in recognizing and moving past destructive interferences through the decolonization and re-inhabitation of a place.
Untitled # 02, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24.”
Untitled # 03, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24.”
Untitled # 04, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24.”
Untitled # 05, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24”.
Untitled # 06, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24”.
Untitled # 07, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24.
Untitled # 08, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24.
Untitled # 09, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24.