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​​​​  Run skirt run run 

      Flour, wildflower, missing Son 

           Black and white face

               traced within hum  

  DICE seven three one maybe five 

    DICE believe Rajih still alive 

        Lady Jamili with 

           unspeakable friend 

             wishing a 3, 7, 5, or maybe 1 

  Oh skirt, run run 

      Flour, wildflower missing son

 

Jamili's Prayer

 

Within the monochrome stillness of these framed images, a mother's internal landscape unfolds: a delicate interplay of chance and enduring hope for her departed son, whose absence resonates in the hushed whispers of his cherished name.

 

The mother’s longing becomes palpable—an emotion that transcends time, echoing through millennia. This enduring ache, a constant across generations of mothers, finds a focal point in the ritual of the dice. Here, her cherished numbers become potent symbols of hope: a timeless language of yearning. Each roll is a silent plea, a desperate interpretation of fate where a favorable outcome offers a fragile promise of her son’s well-being—a hope as old as motherhood itself.

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An installation featuring video, dice, and a sequence of 150 photos. It presented in A Museum of Immortality  (inspired by the philosophy of Nikolai Fedorov) at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, in June 2014.

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