Our Mother's Garden
Print Editorial
Our Mother's Garden: The Bay Area Muslim Community Through the Lens of Motherhood is my love letter to the Bay Area.
Growing up in a large Muslim community, I felt like I always had many mothers. I always wondered about how our diverse community came to be and I came across the "Bay Area Muslim Study" done by Farid Senzai and Hatem Bazian. I thought about the stories of the mothers who moved here and helped build a foundation for this ever growing Muslim community and asked daughters to interview their mothers from different Muslim communities in the Bay Area to answer questions about motherhood. This book is a compilation of those interviews complemented with excerpts from the "Bay Area Muslim Study."
Each mother-daughter duo has a coordinating color that represents them with the use of imagery of their motherland’s national flower throughout their interview spread. The imagery represented throughout the interviews was provided to me as well as pictures of objects that represent and remind the mothers of their motherland. The mothers' beautiful hands are displayed in the opening spread of each interview to symbolize hardship and the act of "building." The excerpts from "The Bay Area Muslim Study" include a heavy use of the color blue to represent the colors of our beloved Bay. Each interview ends with a handwritten note responding to, “What does it mean to be...” in accordance to their identity. The book is printed on Stardust speckled paper and the covers are printed on a textured blue, green, or pink paper.
Tools used: Indesign + Photoshop
March 2022
