Clay Sheet Amulets, 2025 (work in progress)
Wild clay, coal, hair, silk.


This work is a series of wild clay amulets on canvas. These amulets are experiments made of wild clay sourced from a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, where I was born and raised. They are constructed with materials and scripts that have been used in Arab and Nordic folk medicine for healing and protection.

I think that for the long the path of indigenous resistance to colonial erasure, refugee camps as resistance structures would transform into living amulets as an embodiment of powers of protection. Protection from erasure.

Therefore, physical materials from Palestinian refugee camps are used in this work as the base of these amulets. These sheets are meant to be installed against the walls of the exhibition space using nails, mimicking the traditional way pendants are used, and aiming at transforming the exhibition space into a sphere for protecting indigeneity against colonial violence.