The Disinherited:
a counter-memorial to exile

The Disinherited: a counter-memorial to exile, 2005 (money wedding headdress) Copper, cloth, beads, thread.

The Disinherited: a counter-memorial to exile, 2005 (money wedding headdress)
Copper, cloth, beads, thread.

The dowry money headdress is an artifact now lost to Palestinian culture. Fashioned after my mother’s faint memory of her grandmother’s, our collaborative effort constructs a memorial to our family’s continual migrations. Substituting the no longer minted Palestinian currency with coins embossed with our visas, passport stamps, and pictures suggests an intellectual dowry rather than a monetary or economic one. My inheritance is confined to the memories of my elders, teetering on the brink of obliteration.

 
Previous
Previous

Birthright