Neville Wakefield and Aya Alireza talk with Sherin Guirguis, an LA-based artist who taps into her Egyptian heritage in her artwork Kholkhal Aliaa. The large, gold crown, hovering over a shady space between rocks, was inspired by a Bedouin anklet from the artist’s mother. The project was about reconnection with her Arab roots, and with the mothers, daughters and sisters of the region for whom the anklets “are both about beauty and about power.” Guirguis worked with local craftswomen on the artwork– a collaboration that she says was “a life-changing experience for me.”