Brushing Her Hair brings together ideas from my previous bodies of work, Living: Architectures of Memory and Um Al Salasil WIl Thahab, which roughly translates to (The Lady in Gold), exploring women, memory, identity, heritage, and how cultural narratives are carried through adornment, gesture, and inherited practices. Taking its title from a local/regional song describing a woman brushing or doing her hair, the work considers grooming and braiding as acts of care through which stories, experiences, memories, and cultural practices are passed between generations. These memories form a living archive, continually reshaped through repetition and experience, creating what I refer to as “the family of the neighborhood”, a network of women connected through care, belonging, and shared histories. Thread, ink, and paper evoke hair, connection, lineage, continuity, and the fragmented and layered nature of memory, reflecting how memories are accumulated, repeated, and reassembled over time. Extending into performance-inspired video and still imagery, the work explores memory as an inhabited and evolving structure, revealing how identity and heritage are continually shaped by what we inherit, remember, and choose to carry forward.