Will Tomorrow Never Come and Locked, Lost

Will Tomorrow Never Come and Locked, Lost were two large scale installations I created at MOCA GA for the 2018 exhibition, Far From Home: Stories of Refugee Girls. I hand dyed thousands of envelopes and mounted them on the gallery wall to look like the waves that some refugees battle in their search for a new home. I was specifically thinking about the Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar for Bangladesh when I created this work. The second installation, Lost Locked, is about the symbolic importance of keys to refugees. The Palestinian people were some of the earliest to keep the keys to their lost homes with them, though there is almost no hope of return. Keys are now symbolic for many refugees, regardless of ethnicity. Each key hung in this exhibition represented 1,000 refugee girls. The number of refugees in 2018 rivaled the numbers seen after World War II.