Additional information: My movement to the Persian Gulf was to accept a professorship at the University of Sharjah, College of Fine Arts and Design, United Arab Emirates. I was selected for the position to assist with the implementation of five new degree programs with specific attention to a common foundation year and to establish an interdisciplinary art studio. Migration to the oil rich Gulf for work has seen one of the most unprecedented developments in culture, education, architecture and nation building. Living in the Gulf was a displacement by choice that allowed me to investigate the term transcultural. For the artist, this represents an identity through an art practice of mobility and translation of images. Art creates experience and this experience is a “third space” that is neither self nor other, but, as Homi Bhabha puts it, “something else besides”