Concerned but Powerless: Rough Translations

Digital video, 5 minutes, 2023

When I became a parent, I began documenting the experience of being an immigrant father in America through a series of works called Concerned but Powerless. The artworks made use of Urdu typography and explored themes like cultural loss, assimilation, democracy, misinformation and the rising anti-immigrant sentiment. Several years later, when my daughter got a bit older, I had a conversation with her trying to teach her the Urdu words that were on each of the 22 collages in the series.