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Where the Most Common Places Become Uncommon
I began drawing in a bunker in Lebanon at age 12.
That instinct: to find beauty inside confinement, to make the invisible visible, has shaped everything since.
Visual and interdisciplinary artist. NeuroArts researcher. Bringing art to displaced children in Lebanon. Exploring how nature, the body, and the backyard can teach us about stress, presence, and each other.
Artist Statement
Where the Most Common Places Become Uncommon
My practice begins in the backyard of my North Texas home. Over years of returning to the same patch of land, it has become a collaborator, a laboratory, and a mirror.
I track shadows. I paint on thrifted fabric. I hang translucent layers in the wind and watch what light does as it passes through rather than landing on a surface. The ordinary, observed slowly enough, always holds something just beyond what you can name.
That remainder is what I am after. In the paintings. In the installations. In the research. In the children in Lebanon who remind me of who I was.
Artist Bio
I work at the edge of what is visible.
My subject is nature, particularly the backyard in all its seasonal rhythms. But the deeper subject is perception itself: how the body receives the world before the mind can name it, and what art can do to slow that reception down.
I let the subject choose the medium. Paint on thrifted fabric. Holographic film. Projected light. Sheer layers that move with wind. The materials change because the question changes, and the question is always the same: What are we not seeing?
This practice has grown into a research inquiry, NeuroArts, and a humanitarian project called Revive Baladna, which brings art materials and workshops to displaced children in Lebanon. The backyard and the bunker are not as far apart as they seem.
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Exhibit Address:
2100 Greenville Ave, Ste 119, Richardson, TX 75082
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