Attendance Book is a video collage mapped onto the sides of an accordion book. A long, accordion-folded sheet of paper becomes the screen for projected screen recordings from my video calls with high-school classmates who now live in different countries. There were 30 students in our class; when I made this work, 25 were living outside Iran, while our immediate families remained in Iran.

Numbers printed along the paper mark the geographic coordinates for me and my high-school cohort. As viewers move along the piece, faces gradually fade, and the folds read like a line of rooftops, reminding neighbor-to-neighbor proximity. Each segment stands for a different narrative and experience.
The video is muted; the room’s audio is a recorded soundtrack of hammering metal number stamps into the paper to engrave the coordinates.