Bokja x EcoRove at New Museum, NY

EcoRove approached Bokja to collaborate on The Land Keepers tapestry, a piece designed by EcoRove and brought to life through Bokja’s intervention in its execution and storytelling elements.

The project was born from shared grief and resistance, challenging colonial narratives that continue to erase our lands, our people, and our futures. Unity of Blood and Fatea triptych tapestry is derived from an original drawing designed by EcoRove.

Bokja approached the project as a collective act of storytelling, translating EcoRove’s original drawing into textile form. Drawing on their deep connection to craft, the team carefully reimagined the landscapes of Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria through symbols that evoke each land’s essence, both fragile and resilient. Every stitch is an act of preservation, embedding the visual languages and lived memories that define these identities. The result is a tapestry that not only reflects shared histories, but also serves as a quiet refusal to let them be erased.

It depicts beekeepers, herders, foragers, and farmers whose ancestral practices persist under siege, including scorched-earth bombings in South Lebanon, greenwashed land theft in Palestine, and wind farms disguised as sustainability in Jawlan. These instances of violence take different forms, but follow the same logic: displacement, extraction, and control.