The word “between” came from the Old English betwēonum, meaning “in the space which separates two things.” From the Proto-Indo-European “dwo,” it winds its way through Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin. It describes a space of tension, of not belonging to either side. It is liminality, borderlands, exile, translation, and resistance. "Between the Sand and the Sea" is a multi-disciplinary project that bridges fiction, architecture, and visual storytelling. The works on display are selected comic pages and illustrations from a personal novel of the same name, exploring themes of memory, empire, and liminality along a Silk Road–inspired world. The artworks are compiled in a companion architectural zine, "Kum ve Darya Arasında" ("Between the Sand and the Sea" in Turkish), where fictional locations are visualized through research-based worldbuilding. Drawing from her background in medieval Central Asian architecture, the artist reimagines domes, fortresses, and caravanserais as spaces haunted by myth and political history. The comic excerpts follow Vidaar, a masked thief who survives by stealing names, and Arslan, a young prince paralyzed by royal law. Their unlikely entanglement unravels across peripheral landscapes, where imperial architecture becomes both a weapon and a witness. Together, the images and narrative interrogate who gets to record history— and whether the desert, so often framed as silence, can instead speak