“But with some foods, relished privately or with others, a specter of home can be (re)created, which can be as nourishing, as imperceptible, and as fleeting as the mundane act of holding and ingesting a date.”
Publication: “Home in My Palms,” Dawat Yan Banquet Project, by Mariam Magsi and Eric Chengyang, AGO x RBC Artists-in-Residence. Toronto, March 2022.
Keywords: food, dates, fruit, palm, tamar, trees, orchards, plants, landscape, displacement, memories, recollection, history, narration, place, architecture, landscape, geography, home, belonging, contemporary, art, Baghdad, Iraq, Arab, Muslim, Southwest Asia (”Middle East”), North Africa
Image: Amin Alsaden