Discrepancy of Place

The discrepancy of place, of space, with the temperament of its mountains and valleys, its planes and deserts… the saltiness and sweetness of its water… the set of a foot and the raise to heaven, the path of pain and agony, the Nativity of Christ… The Sultan's Hill, the most ancient of human civilizations ever uncovered by history.

Cities and villages, waylaying tanks, demolishing baggers… prisons, barbed wires, sniper towers, segregating extended walls along the lands and landscape, obstructed horizons, colonial architecture tampering the harmony of nature and place… barricades, checkpoints and IDs, compelling border rituals.

Colours, dyes, Henna, leather, and the scent of Thyme… the red of the bark of Qaykab trees, the age of ancient olive trees… a vision inspired from the authenticity of land, a vision with a horizon beyond that of segregating walls… a vision accentuating the evident victory of nature and love over the language of destruction and oppression.