My work is a mix of sculptural furniture pieces, clothing, and large scale acrylic paintings that use family folklore as the basis for understanding mixed ethnicity and the question of how to be Assyrian in diaspora.

It has focused in the past on the refugee experience, and has shifted more recently to trying to document the pursuit of safety. My past work started from collecting oral histories from Assyrian family members stemming from the 1915 Armenian, Assyrian, Greek Genocide, and is committed to adding to a burgeoning movement of contemporary Assyrian art.

In my new work, I draw from the grid of the rug and practices of tiling to create blocky sculptures that reference Afghan war rugs - just as villages documented unfamiliar Soviet weapons of war in their kilims, so I too am combining the new with the old, my diasporic environment showing up and taking shape in my ancient psyche. The figures are contemporary representations of Assyrian deities -- hybrid creatures, lamassus, chimeras with eagle wings and lion tails, bull bodies, ancient symbols and talismans. I am examining where ancient culture and ritual can continue to show up in our contemporary lives.