Floating

These images are a part of a body of work entitled Haiti and Syria Holding Hearts where I use fabrics and textiles from my native homelands of Syria and Haiti to create surrealist images of Haitians and Syrians in my community. Through these photographs, I use my environment and subjects in my community to understand and analyze my identity as a queer Haitian-Syrian. Through the lens of family history and memory; immigration; confronting an in-between, fluid sense of being; textile and fabric as a tie to cultural visual identity; personal and family happenings in both Haiti and Syria; physical landscape of both countries; language and community, I am dissecting my hybrid identity, an identity that is in-between, ever-evolving, fluid, and what I call “floating.” I am not Haitian enough. I am not Syrian enough. With the help of the landscape, my family and friends, I extend this internal contemplation of my existence to people and spaces that have created this fluid identity I bear.