Strings of Hope is a deeply personal sculpture born from the quiet, suspended time spent waiting at checkpoints. Inspired by the countless origami boats the artist folded while waiting to cross the border, this work gives physical form to a memory of stillness, longing, and resilience.

Crafted from wood and crisscrossed with fine glass rods, the boat is both fragile and immovable—a vessel that will never sail, yet holds the weight of hundreds that came before it. The delicate web of glass evokes the tension of borders, the entrapment of waiting, and the threads of hope that stretch but do not break.

This is a boat for dreaming: not made to float, but to fly. It holds the artist’s silent wish—to lift above the checkpoint, to be carried beyond the lines that divide, toward a freer horizon.