Passage is an ongoing project, 2018, witnessed my first exhibition. In this experience I focus on the idea of crossing through memories and its relation with our senses, how our souls travel through time and places when we hear a specific song or smell a specific scent. In this project, I invite the audience to live my passage experience. I've worked on a batch of artwork using printmaking technique, which I believe portrays the story I want to deliver. The material that I work on, e.g. zinc, wood, block, linoleum, interacts and changes the outcome when I use the tools and add acid. It transfers through different phases, just like we experience our multiple passages.

Part of “Passage Project” comprising of 16 prints 15x20 cm After seven long years of war, and upon visiting my home for the first time, the first thing I did was go out to the little balcony of our room, a room that I used to share with my two brothers…the artworks tell the memories that lived in that balcony. The artwork was done using etching technique on zinc; a magnifying glass was added as a tool to help the audience zoom in to check the etching details. Using those prints, a short animation was created to help in telling the story…

Part of “Passage Exhibition”, is an installation artwork comprising of seven mono-prints 30x300 cm, stitched to symbolize the idea of documenting memories, the prints were hanged from the roof of the room reaching the floor, this allowed the audience to experience a tour in my home, where its located... During the war I was afraid that I am starting to forget how our home looked like, in an effort not to forget, I sketched the floorplan and furniture of my home so I can memorize it.

One of the projects that are very close to my heart, it started along with my graduation project. The project was inspired by a chapter from a book that I was reading; the author was describing how one of the characters is able to read/know a certain person only by checking his hands, and how he used them to gesture and interact with things, and this idea is stuck with me till this moment. You should know that I have to fall in love with your “hands-talk” first ;)

A collection of studies using different techniques and materials. Woodcut, Linocut, Etching, Monotype, Collagraph

A collection of studies using different techniques and materials. Woodcut, Linocut, Etching, Monotype, Collagraph