“Paper is a language in itself. It is very difficult for me to pin down the time I started liking something that I have always been naturally inclined to observe, to make, to collect, to want more of, and to feel challenged by. It is like trying to remember when I first started to see. My mind explores languages while focusing on nuances when switching from Arabic, my mother toungue, to either English, French, Japanese or Spanish. Paper, in that sense, helps me inscribe something more than a single literal meaning into being. It becomes the nuance, or what exists between the words”