For over a year, Joreige had been unable to cry as she witnessed the ongoing violence and devastation unfolding across our region. While pursuing her research for Uncertain Times in various libraries in London, she encountered rare manuscripts, maps and documents –fragments of history, fragile remnants of a not-so-distant past: accounts of the Paris peace conference, territorial negotiations, Zionist proposals and Palestinian petitions, the original Sykes–Picot map. Unexpectedly, she began to cry. Tears fell onto the fragile paper, erasing words, smudging lines, and blurring borders, thus reshaping them into unstable geographies and reimagined histories. These works make up the series As I Weep, which gives its title to the exhibition.