The artist describes her work as being “rooted in memory, both my own and a more distant, perhaps collective one. I unconsciously but continually refer to places, scripts, faces from the past both real and imagined.” Her work is not pre-planned, but instead is a more spontaneous process, where she begins with a line which takes on a life force of its own “making me a mere instrument of its journey.” Often, the source of these lines stem from scripts - scripts of all kinds, even invented ones. The scripts and text which often use the Arabic alphabet are always devoid of literal meaning. It is the line itself which speaks. At times, landscapes emerge, or faces. “In a way I find I write my painting.” “If all of one's life is registered in the recesses of the unconscious, then one’s work might simply be an unravelling, filtered and transformed through time, and the need to give it form. The process eludes me, and retains its mystery.”
