The idea of eternal return is the driving force of the hero’s journey seen in Middle Eastern folk tales and Sufi poetry. Such eternal love comes with a heavy burden. Perhaps a sort of sacrifice. The hero is off to a self-discovery journey leaving a woman waiting behind with a weight in her shoulders. The act of waiting shapes the woman’s identity. Is their passiveness part of the divine will, or if the sole getaway is marriage or death. To reimagine their pain becomes the center of a new narrative, rather than the heroic journey the men go through in the tales. The body of work simultaneously exists as an homage and a critique, it creates a space to trace back and examine the rituals and traditions. Decoration and fiction become forms of escape, the constructed worlds are full of longing.