One of the main projects during the residency at the Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art was to knit while waiting at each checkpoint. Each colour represents a different checkpoint, and the length of the knitting represents how long I had to wait.

The works produced during and inspired through the residency were exhibited in 2008 at Al-Khaf Gallery, Int. Centre of Bethlehem, and Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, in 2009. The exhibition was titled A Tale of Two States. The title of the show borrows its name from the novel written in 1859, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens, of a story about two cities, Paris as the dangerous place and London as the (temporarily) safe spot during the French Revolution. This fictional novel shows social revolution and personal self-sacrifice, a conception of rebellion and human nature. The exhbiiton magnifies ‘real’ and also power relationships within the society through social interaction. Although it does not have a direct relationship to the narrative in the novel itself and it relates more to the problematic environment in Palestine, they speak about the two states, two authorities, one as a 'repressed place’ and the other as a ‘protected place’.

The exhibition at Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art was made possible in partnership with British Council and supported by Ford Foundation.