The title “Orient” refers both to the historical colonial gaze directed toward the East and to the act of orienting oneself within space.

The work consists of approximately one thousand hand-laid and painted wooden pieces installed directly on the floor of a gallery in Jaffa. It re-situates a floor pattern common in Palestinian homes prior to the Nakba into a contemporary public site.

A compass geometry is embedded within the pattern. It bends and redirects itself toward the center of the installation.