New Lands New Lives Migration Narratives

Rendered in a restrained monochrome, the figure-bird hybrid stands like an exile suspended between species and shelter, its long neck and splayed wing describing a longing that the rigid architecture refuses to contain. The hard planes of the house and the velvety dark field press inward, while the wing’s meticulous patterning becomes a fragile counter-melody—order attempting to dignify dislocation. Below, the open trunk reads as both vessel and threshold, holding the traces of a journey with an unsettling intimacy, as if migration were not movement but an inventory of what the body can carry without breaking. The work quietly frames transformation as a state of exposure: the self assembled from borrowed anatomies, poised to depart yet already marked by arrival.