05/02/2026
The ancient atomists observed a universe where matter falls through the void in parallel lines, each trajectory determined by weight and necessity. Nothing ever meets, starts, or ends. No shores, no waves. No collisions, no compounds, no formations—only an endless, orderly descent. It is along this monotonous void of parallels that the hedonist Epicurus finds the need for a deviation, later named by Lucretius as the clinamen: a minimal swerve, occurring at no fixed place or time, without prior cause. The deviation is so slight as to be nearly imperceptible, but still eventful. Atoms “swerve a little from their course, at no fixed time or place,” and without this deviation, “no collision would occur.” It interrupts the parallel fall of matter just enough for atoms to encounter one another. From this interruption and errancy, a freedom or agency finds its start.
grew up outside of Detroit, in a multilingual household embroidered with combined practices of Islamic spiritualism and Catholic traditionalism. Her early navigation of a confluence of superstitions and storylines has deeply informed her foundational interests in the way archetypal signals and emotional narratives can be implicated in material, form and process. With frequent evocation of the body through scale, tactile material residues and organic structural nuance, her work unsettles the deeply personal with the surreal.
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