Hands That Hold, 2025 

Materials: Oil paint, gold gilding, glass and ceramic tiles, synthetic hair, papier-mâché, and gold wire on wood panel 

Size: 75 × 60 × 6 in

Short Description:
This work turns toward Sudan, where histories of labor, oil, land, and ancient civilization collapse into one image. The open hands carry both offering and wound. Blood moves through them as a sign of what has been extracted from the body, the earth, and the people across time. The pyramids point to a history older than colonial mapping, while the gesture of the hands asks what it means to hold memory after so much has been taken. The work is not only about suffering; it is about endurance. The hands remain open. They still hold knowledge, inheritance, and the possibility of repair.