PROJECTS



01. God’s Eye Sees AllLiquid emulsion on mixed media,
Publication2023 - 2024
God’s Eye Sees All is a visual and material project exploring the subversion of public and private realms through the introduction of aerial imaging technologies during the first Gulf War. Aerial perspectives lensed by emerging technologies, such as GPS and satellite imagery, functioned to reaffirm the universalising imaginary perceiving desert lands as dead and empty, contouring and flattening the land and its situated cosmologies.

The project returns to these desert lands along the Kuwait-Iraq border, rearranging found stones, corrugated metal, discarded door frames and other loose materials into a carpet- the focal point of Arab domestic life. The composition of the carpet explores the symbiotic relationship between these contested landscapes and the homes that carry their stories, reflecting upon interpersonal processes of collective remembrance, family histories, and their subsequent presentation of history as a symbol of memory. Found materials within the composition are photochemically hand-printed using liquid light emulsion, in collaboration with Kuwait City-based darkroom Studio Khemia’e.


The following stage of this project centres the Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum, formerly a family home that now stands as a memorial ground for martyrs of the first Gulf War. The home bears the scars of the battle that took place inside, on February 24th, 1991, and has been left untouched since then. The still-images captured draw parallels between the visual and material identities of the natural and built environment and the people that inhabit them; between landscapes, maps, homes, decay, and re-birth.