Launch Pad provided opportunities for recent xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Vancouver-based graduates from art and design institutions to enter into the field of public art. From October 2024 - October 2025, five billboard spaces along the Arbutus Greenway, between Fir Street and Burrard Street on 6th Avenue, featured the works of 20 recent graduates. These exhibitions rotated, with each series displayed for approximately nine weeks.

Samaka belongs to a series of cyanotype prints I made while researching the significance of fish as symbols, particularly within the MENA/SWANA (Middle East/SouthWest Asian & North African) region. They can represent eternal life, be considered messengers or travellers, and can act as protectors from evil spirits. I work with cyanotype for its akin to apparitions and its rich blue colour that is reminiscent of the same blue found across the region. The fish has become a significant symbol for me as well, reminding me of my coastal upbringing on the Atlantic in Nova Scotia, and my current coastal home on the Pacific in British Columbia, as well as an ode to the Arabic phrase I often grew up hearing from my mother that translates to “I love you as much as the sea and all of the fish in it”.