At the Diaspora Dumpling Potluck + Archiving Party, eight participants shared the edible results of their exploration of the richness of food as medium.

Each guest chef was challenged to invent, prepare, and share their very own diaspora dumpling, defined as “an inventive, cross-cultural food item made to be eaten in multiples—necessarily composed of a mixed filling that is wrapped in dough before being cooked. An edible medium for sharing who you are and where you come from.”

Filed under:
food, sculpture, diaspora, participatory, social practice, houston

Makroudh
Work In Progress
2023-ongoing

A recipe- and pattern-based project centering the traditionally hand-pressed Tunisian pastry مقروض (makroudh).

Filed under:
food, sculpture, diaspora, pattern 

One
2014

Three deformed sculptures
tell a story without words. Blooming from the nutrients it extracts from the existing life around it, this tale of a “mighty” flower challenges notions of success, selfishness,
and solitude.

Filed under:
sculpture, bookarts

Lipshits
2014

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger (the patriarchy, toxic chemicals in cosmetics, your sense of self-loathing, whatever).

Filed under:
sculpture, exhibition