Salaam Ellicott City
This scroll turns a city map into a field of prayer, memory, and repair. Drawn through meditative repetition, the work gathers time the way fabric gathers threads, holding past floods, present walking rituals, and a hopeful future together. Rather than documenting ownership, the map acts as an ethical archive: it remembers vulnerability while quietly insisting on care. The artist’s practice of walking, reciting, and drawing makes the city a living relation rather than a site to be managed, echoing ecological ideas of reciprocity. Qur’anic invocations of mercy, gentleness, forgiveness, and love transform the cartography into dhikr, remembrance that peace begins in the heart and radiates outward to the home, the neighborhood, and the world. In this way, the piece joins cosmology, archive, ecology, and faith into one proposition: to dwell is to care; to map is to witness; and witnessing, practiced with mercy, becomes a form of repair.






