OPEN ECO: Nasrah Omar, Portal I (2023)

A tabletop altar built as homage to the neolithic stone circles and standing stones I have visited on foot as part of the series Thresholds. I wanted to hold the atavistic charge of those sites in the way stone seems to keep time differently than we do and let that aura transmit even at miniature scale. This is an offering made in the studio to something encountered outdoors, still carrying the awe of that first meeting. These stones have stood for millennia and building a small devotional landscape in their likeness is my way of asking what we owe these enchanting sites in return. 

Nasrah Omar is a multidisciplinary artist based in NYC whose practice spans photography, XR, installation, collage, coding and community facilitation. Rooted in South Asian diasporic experience, ancestral memory and decolonial world-building, she constructs vivid sensory realms where connection, visibility, healing and resistance are held as collective practices. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MA from the Royal College of Art. A current Laundromat Project fellow and A Blade of Grass FieldFund awardee, she has facilitated zine-making workshops, screen walks, community gatherings. She is a recipient of the Google Image Equity Fellowship and CulturePush Fellowship.

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