Ecologies of Ruin, 2026

"Ecologies of Ruin" investigates the profound psychological spaces of displacement, forced migration, and the fragmentation of domestic memory within Lebanon and the wider region. Through meticulous digital image manipulation and photographic layering, intimate domestic spaces, family dining tables, living room furniture, vintage radios, and ancestral portraits are seamlessly superimposed onto harsh, barren, fractured mountain topographies. By violently pulling the quiet safety of the interior home into the raw exposure of an unstable landscape, the work strips away notions of domestic stability to mirror systemic geopolitical collapse. The resulting visuals create an evocative, surreal sanctuary where personal family histories and world landscape politics hauntingly collide.