I make drawings, paintings and paper clay sculptures as a performative practice; to explore how we inhabit our bodies in a foreign context while making bridges to connect. I aim to reclaim the meaning of home and place, and the consistent looming threats of erasure, removal and cultural legacies imposed on immigrants like me. The gestures on the pieces explore displacement, belonging, translation, and power dynamics. I work from the periphery where I gain perspective on what, how and when to disclose parts of my identity that feel threatened by the mass discourse. Painting and drawing then become acts of resistance and the images act as expressions beyond language, confronting a rhetoric of exclusion. Work that embodies vulnerability and gives voice to the lived immigrant experience as testimony of longing, migration, and shaping new understandings.