Two hummingbirds lie still atop a mound of raw sugar, a nicotine flower drooping softly above. A cut-out window and snakeskin motif evoke imagined escape routes and unseen barriers. In Egress, the window becomes both passage and partition, turning a delicate scene into a layered meditation on migration, vulnerability, and the false promise of refuge. Beauty and loss intertwine in quiet tension. The mound of raw sugar under hummingbirds (victims of a window’s invisible violence), links this work to earlier series by Soleimani. That reflects this same Sugar is a key part of her visual vocabulary, borrowing from political strategy and the metaphor of something ostensibly soft or valuable (sweetness) being complicit in harm or being undercut by power or fragility.