One Family, One Century: Toward the Light is a sculptural cycle that traces a hundred-year journey of displacement, resilience, and ethical continuity across five generations. Beginning with the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe and extending toward the unrealized potential of the next generation, the work transforms the private history of a single lineage into a universal meditation on inheritance, responsibility, and endurance.
Structured around five foundational archetypes—The Root (Al-Asl), The Preserver (Al-Hafizah), The Captain (Al-Nakhuda), The Redeemer (Al-Fida’i), and The Light (Al-Noor)—each sculpted head functions as a moral and psychological anchor for its era. Together, they form a lineage of guardianship, tracing how knowledge, trauma, care, and hope are carried forward rather than erased. The figures engage in a cross-cultural and cross-historical dialogue with traditions of monumentality and remembrance, situating personal memory within a broader human continuum.
The project’s alchemy lies in its material process. Recycled 20th-century medical waste (PETG) is transformed into 21st-century gold artifacts through advanced fabrication techniques. This act of material refinement mirrors the lineage itself: the capacity to take the scars of history—objects associated with fragility and survival—and convert them into enduring forms of value. The process foregrounds principles of stewardship, repair, and sustainability, aligning inherited memory with forward-looking innovation.
Positioned within societies actively negotiating the relationship between tradition and future vision, To the Light speaks to shared Gulf concerns around lineage, custodianship, and the ethical transmission of values across generations. In dialogue with the ambitions of [sustainability, heritage ….], the sculptural cycle asks: what does it mean to leave behind not only prosperity, but peace—and how do we become worthy ancestors to those who follow?