My work navigates the tension between personal and collective memory, exploring the landscapes of my childhood alongside questions of identity, belonging, and culture. Musmus, the village where I was born and raised, is a central source of inspiration—its za’atar fields, vetch meadows, prickly pear paths, and livestock herds serve as visual traces of memory, reflecting a deep connection to land and roots. The cactus appears repeatedly in my work as a layered symbol: a protective wall, a thorny barrier, yet also a bearer of sweet fruit. Through it, I express contrasts—life and death, preservation and ruin, pain and hope.

My practice examines how traditional cultural motifs merge with contemporary artistic language. In series like Letters and Poems, I integrate texts from Mahmoud Darwish and other Palestinian poets with ornamental patterns and geometric designs, creating new connections between script and visual memory. The tension between symmetry and fragmentation, decoration and emotional weight, raises questions about cultural identity within a shifting landscape.

Ultimately, my art is an attempt to reconstruct, preserve, and give space to what remains—a silent testimony to the existence of personal and collective worlds where beauty and pain are inseparably intertwined.