A photo of me picking up a stone off the ground in Metlaa. Taken by my friend, Khawla Alhussaini. Olympus PEN-EE, 24mm - 2009.
Masafa, the Arabic word for distance comes from saf, which means ‘to sniff’. Travelers used to find their way in the desert by sniffing the ground. Therefore, the notion of distance in Arabic acquired an olfactory and navigational values.
Travelogue of the Arabian Peninsula, 2010.
What is Masafa then at the speed of a car? The ephemeral smell of the ground made way to a multitude of fleeting moments of becoming; visual and audible.
Temiyah and Sanam, a love story between two mountains, 2010.
2012 - Diagrams of crude relations.