The loss felt by immigrant families comes in two waves - that of what was left behind, and the cultural distance experienced by their children. Caught between two worlds, it is a tightrope act between assimilation and maintaining connection to their parents’ culture. Balance is not the right term, but rather a constant tension; a step in either direction leading to a furthered distance from the other, never fully comfortable in either.
Nadia expresses these tensions in her practice with the particular lens as a woman navigating both cultural and gender roles which further amplifies the oscillation between cultures.