‘Du Rê’, Kurmanji Kurdish for ‘two roads’, is a body of work undertaken in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq between October 2024 and June 2025.
The impurity that we see is the result of impure awareness, and also the Buddha's compassion in creating a world within which impure things can grow. Thus the real way to attain a pure land is to purify one's own mind.
Ambient, transitional light; mutable surfaces; images of the anti sublime that make manifest a view that's compromised in its’ making. The work explores the experience of the migrant - the temporal fragility of the lives of those who must leave.