What Remains
Materials: birch wood, rugs, mirror-embroidered fabric, thread
Dimensions: three vertical forms; heights 92 in, 82 in and 90 in; each base 16 × 24 in
Textile-wrapped birch columns stand vertical in the gallery. They occupy space the way displaced bodies do: present, visible, refusing to settle.
The fabrics carry traces of former use. Saturated reds. Frayed edges. Careful binding that holds without healing. Wrapped around birch, they become something between monument and body, between memorial and presence.
Birch is a pioneer species. It colonizes disturbed ground. It grows where something else has been cleared. These forms hold that tension: what arrives after displacement, and what was displaced to make arrival possible.
Exhibited at the Mississauga Festival of Trees, Small Arms Inspection Building, 2024. Supported by CreativeHub 1352.
Detail views
Mississauga Festival of Trees, Small Arms Inspection Building, 2024
Installation views
Ignite Gallery, Toronto
Photo documentation by Omid Bakhshaei