No Soy / Ana Agnabi will be a suite of monumental paintings paired with a grouping of one hundred small to mid-size bronze, stone, and epoxy clay sculptures inspired by ancient Egyptian shabti figures. The sculptures will be displayed on tabletops and surrounded by wall mounted, vibrant colored cutout collage-paintings. Recently, Milad created two monumental collage-paintings and an accompanying bronze sculpture for a commission at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The grand scale and use of bronze as a material was a new experience for her and opened many ideas for experimentation. In Milad’s canvas works she collages together imagery from both her Egyptian and Honduran cultures, bridging past, present, and future (even myth), into one space. Her abstract pieces address the layers and complexities of diasporic identities and counter-hegemonic narratives. This further growth of sculptural components will echo symbols and figures culled from her existing works on canvas, inspired by actual ancient Egyptian and Meso-American artifacts held at the British Museum. The British Museum holds the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside of Egypt, with nearly 100,000 Ancient Egyptian objects. Each of Milad’s small sculptures will represent one thousand objects held in the British Museum’s collection. For the past couple of years, she has been utilizing their online collection and study room program to make drawn renditions of the antiquities in their collection, which she later sites in her work. By collaging these drawings and using them in canvas and sculptural work, Milad reinterprets and reclaims these historical objects of her heritage.