A compelling new work has been unveiled in the Arts House windows. Produced by Naarm/Melbourne based visual artist Aida Azin and curated by Arts House associate producer Kalyani Mumtaz, the piece comprises six abstract paintings and uses evocative dream-state symbols to decode the experiences of a third-culture kid.

Stay Climbing encompasses Azin’s life experiences and explores contradictory feelings: yearning for an identity of authenticity, and the process of dealing with shame.

Born to Iranian/Filipina parents and raised in an Australian context, Aida’s life experiences are melded with depictions of liminality and an attempt to reconcile losses that all diasporic bodies contend with. Azin uses her paintings to describe her understanding of where her responsibilities might lie as a person that comes from three diverse cultures. Although everyone's experience is different, there are unique underlying similarities that weave the experiences of the diaspora together.