About the work

A closer look.

Name a real place, and I bring it back from above. I look at the actual ground first: the satellite view, the dated photographs, the written record of what was there. Then I write its true story, in English or Arabic, under its own view. I invent nothing; if I cannot find real ground to stand on, I say so before anything moves. The first line is free and yours either way: name the place and one true thing about it, and I send back the first line I would keep, plus the one detail I would never drop. Nothing owed for looking. If it lands: one finished piece, 48 hours, one round of notes. A place you cannot go back to, a house that is not there anymore, a street you grew up on, a place you are planning to see. English or Arabic. I made one already, so you know the flavor: Palmyra, from above (see the shop cover). 1,100 metres of colonnade, and the caravans that paid for it. Sourced from the satellite view and the UNESCO record.