The 8-pointed star began this journey stripped of meaning, sold as seasonal decoration. Through systematic engagement with tatreez methodology, it re-emerges as contemporary identity, rooted in culture, history, and resistance.
The work doesn’t seek to reinvent Palestinian motifs, but to restore authorship and return visibility to a tatreez pattern that was decontextualised, renamed, and commercialised without credit. A mark alone cannot reclaim a culture, but it can participate in cultural continuity. Its meaning grows through the people who use it, carry it, and recognise themselves in it.
In contexts of systematic cultural erasure, design that makes Palestinian identity visible becomes essential work. Palestinian narratives are too often reduced to suffering and conflict, with culture eclipsed by trauma. This identity challenges that limited representation by presenting Palestine through cultural richness, artistic heritage, and a steadfastness deeply rooted in the land.