dispersed (2025)

This installation grows from my interest in how objects travel and hold memories, longing, and fragments of personal history. The work centers around a rug I brought with me from Iran. I used its texture and pattern as a way to connect fragments of video recorded during my last visit in Tehran in January 2025. Through cutting, layering, and rearranging these images, I explore how memory shifts and is reconstructed over time. The repetition and disorientation in this process mirror the experience of revisiting moments that no longer fully belong to either the present or the past. The rug becomes both an anchor and a threshold, an object through which I think about what it means to exist across different places.