project statement

Tatreez is a centuries-old Palestinian embroidery tradition, historically used to signal a woman's village, family, and marital status through distinct regional patterns. After the Nakba in 1948, tatreez became something more: a portable archive of a homeland many could no longer return to, carried in exile.

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This small series takes traditional tatreez motifs and arranges them into representations of the Palestinian flag itself. Tatreez has always been a mode of remembering, but it has also always been a mode of protest, and making these flags today, in community with Palestinian women in the diaspora, continues that lineage.