This self-portrait marks a moment of re-migration, where the artist confronts her own reflection in the glass of a roof window. Seated between the lit interior and the dark exterior, she is caught between two realms— belonging and estrangement, where identity is negotiated in context.
The work takes The Star of the tarot as a symbolic axis, where vulnerability finds a new meaning when it functions as the motor for movement. By foregrounding fragility as a condition of transformation, the piece insists on the possibility of finding new forms of becoming. While rooted in a personal encounter, it speaks to collective realities of migration, dislocation, and the difficult work of reshaping the self in unstable conditions.
