In COGICO, Ahmad Hage revisits the places that held his childhood and his father’s working life: an old gas station, nearby stores, and the sound of the beach. These shared surroundings carried different meanings for each of them. For his father, they were places of work and responsibility; for Ahmad, they became a world of color, emotion, and artistic possibility. The collection brings these perspectives together through the papers, marks, and materials of his father’s daily routine.

Silkscreen prints transfer handwritten notes, drawings, and work documents from the gas station onto garments, carrying records of labor into Ahmad’s creative practice. Ink, once a practical tool in his father’s work, becomes a medium for dyeing fabric. Ice dyeing produces flowing, watercolor-like effects whose unpredictable patterns evoke water and the shifting nature of memory. Gathering creates points of tension, making the fabric appear pulled or held, an expression of attachment and the forces that shape their relationship.

Taffeta, gabardine, and frayed fabric bring varied surfaces to a palette of orange, purple, blue, red, pink, and Bordeaux, with white, beige, and yellow. Through vivid color and traces of everyday work, COGICO returns to a familiar landscape, revealing how father and son found different ways to inhabit it.