[Image description: Lorain, who has brown skin and dark hair and wears a black top, sits in her living room. The sofas and coffee table are covered by unfurled white, black, and red keffiyehs. Lorain stitches another keffiyeh on an embroidery hoop on her lap.]
Lorain Khalil Rihan is a visual artist, storyteller, and educator living and working on occupied Kumeyaay land. She creates work devoted to the remembrance of Palestine in defiance of ongoing settler colonial erasure. Her creative process includes archiving, social practice, cooking, printmaking, embroidery, teaching, and writing. She explores the intergenerational lived experiences of her family in the motherland and exile, situated within the collective memory of Palestine.
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