your touch unsettles how i see

Made while visiting family in Türkiye in 2012, "your touch unsettles how I see" emerges out of experiments that contend with the embodied experience of living a queer Muslim life. Indebted to Sarah Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology (2010) the work enlists the abstract forms of a Turkish carpet and the artist’s body to produce a kind of misplaced desire, a queer sensation.