This series ‘From My Valley’ (2019) is an intimate homage to the valley of my childhood ‘Anater Zbeideh’—a landscape that is both personal and collective, rooted deeply in Lebanon’s ecological and historical fabric. Through small-format works and a delicate visual language, I revisit the valley not just as a place, but as a living memory.

Lebanon’s valleys have long been sites of refuge, sustenance, and continuity. Ecologically rich and historically layered, they hold remnants of ancient civilizations alongside endangered plant species and resilient ecosystems. In this series, the valley is rendered not on a monumental scale, but through quiet, intimate gestures—mirroring the way memory preserves what matters most not through grandeur, but through detail.

The chosen scale and stylistic approach evoke the act of recollection: fragments, textures, and atmospheres that linger long after one leaves. The work is less about topographic accuracy than about emotional truth—a cartography of feeling and memory.

In returning to this valley through art, I am also returning to the roots of identity, belonging, and the spaces that shaped how I see the world.