Where the pomegranate grows

🌿Dimensions: 40 x 52 cm
🌿Technique: Paper-cutting, embroidery, crochet
🌿Medium: Painting on paper, cotton/acrylic threads, resin, jute fabric, perspex

This work draws on the Persianate heritage of South Asia.
The pomegranate—an emblem of fertility, life, and renewal—grows from the crowns of dancing figures, pulling them toward an origin, a nostalgic past. Floating roots extend from their feet, attempting to anchor them in the present.
Parrots in the borders symbolize wisdom and the transmission of knowledge across generations. Embroidered rabbits move in circular rhythms—clockwise and counterclockwise—evoking the flow of time, where past and present dissolve into a shared, liminal space.
Together, they form a quiet chorus—remembering what was lost, reimagining what can still grow.