Were you trying to recreate an olfactory space of these tablets? Is that was the reason why you were pulling out those particular materials? What was

the purpose? So the project was part of the large-scale installation Hang Our Gods, and so it was shown at Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles, which is in Mid-City on Wilshire Boulevard across from LACMA and the La Brea Tar Pits, funny enough.

When I would tell people, it's like one of the tinctures is bitumen, just like the La Brea Tar Pits.

So it was a great, like, you know, aid there.

But it was kind of a complex project.

Breaking it down, essentially, a lot of my work has to do with authority, power, and how that is translated through particular time periods, especially around the Cold War era.

My background is I'm Arab.

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