TWENTY FOURTEEN
Trying the process the events of 2014. Trying to understand my relationship with Dhivehi Raajjé (The Maldives).
2014 was year @moyameehaa was abducted and killed. The year threats escalated against @yaamyn, ending in his murder in 2017.
2014 was the year I was forced to apply for asylum, forever cutting me off from the islands where I was born.
It is now 2025. More than a decade later and it seems like things have only gotten worse. Queer and irreligious Dhivehin and their allies still live in fear for their lives. The youth are still suffocating, crushed between self serving politicians and murderous zealots.
Digital collage and illustration. Uses a hand drawn pixel art map of Maldives that I’m still working on as a separate project.