The 'Magic' Carpet

This work is an ode to the children with thick eyebrows who grew up with 'Aladdin' as their guiding light to Eastern culture. May the cries and the wails of the Reed Flute hold you the way cinema never could.

​Inspired by Edward Said's notion of 'Orientalism', aiming to depict Western media's bastardisation of Eastern culture, this work aims to comment that Western media's stereotypes such as 'magic carpets, sensual women and magical deserts harm the Middle Eastern identity'.