Memory and Non-Linear Storytelling​

Memory does not unfold in a straight line. It appears in fragments—sudden flashes, partial images, overlapping feelings. Numbers and Squares reflects this non-linear structure.

Instead of following a fixed sequence, visitors navigate freely through the grid, opening any square they choose. Each audience member creates a unique path through the work, mirroring the unpredictable ways memory surfaces in our minds.

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A Contemporary Form of Writing

This project is also a practice of contemporary writing. Instead of words on a page, I write through images, sounds, and interaction. The thirty words from the original game became anchors for short texts that drift between memory, poetry, and storytelling.

Combined with video and interactivity, the result is a living, fragmented text that resists closure—open-ended, shifting, and alive.

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Resistance and Erasure​

Palestine seeks not only to destroy lives and homes but also to erase us as a people and silence our narratives. Entire neighborhoods vanish within hours, and countless stories are lost before they are told.

The archive—holding faces and places that no longer exist—becomes a witness: proof that we were here, that our lives were rich and complex, and that even when physical spaces are destroyed, memory endures.

This work preserves not only the voices of my own family but also the stories of Palestinians in the diaspora—stories rarely documented, yet vital to our collective history.

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How the Game Works
Numbers and Squares takes the form of an interactive grid of thirty numbered squares displayed on a touchscreen. Each square hides a word. When revealed, the word unlocks a short video fragment from my family archive along with a written reflection. Wrong guesses reset the square, while correct ones allow the memory to surface. In this way, the audience must “play to remember,” actively piecing together fragments of video, text, and memory to create their own unique path through the work.