Muhannad Shono imagines land and self as one surface. Each “homeskin” is ground made portable: a horizon folded, lifted, carried. Between refuge and return, the work asks how belonging endures when home is elsewhere—how bonds, not borders, hold people together.

Made from foundry sand—earth forced through industry, then cast aside—the skins echo lives reshaped by extraction and displacement. Burnt sand is bound into paper-fabric and hand-formed into tall, soft columns that descend through the Monnaie de Paris staircase like blankets of earth. Light grazes them; air moves through their seams; the stair becomes a chamber where distance folds.

Gathered as a unit, Homeskins I–VI read as a family in transit. Once horizons, they now unfold as paths—routes of migration and care. Within Asia NOW’s GROW frame, the ensemble proposes re-rooting as an action: carrying, grafting, making room so growth remains possible wherever we stand.