There was a sudden power failure in the   which affected my computer; the operating system malfunctioned and i was forced to restore everything to the factory system. I found that I had lost almost all of my data and images. I was heartbroken because years of my photography and work files had been deleted. Then I discovered this folder with my partially restored partially corrupted photographs from the festival. I found them immediately very powerful, as a metaphor for what had explore themes of identity, memory, representation and displacement, all within the current context of memories and war and instability. By diversifying the dominant narratives about Yemen and its peoples, the artwork  draws attention to the discrepancies that exist between public and private knowledge of events unfolding in Yemen daily.  challenges viewers to reflect on their understanding of the conflict and to question the roles of various geo-political forces