Between crossing and settling, there are seeds — carried by hand or by the wind, delicate and fragile, yet filled with promise.

Between departure and return, there are seasons — soft or harsh, dictated by nature or by man.

There are trees and flowers and fruits and vegetables, and the homeland that waits.

In between, there are those who travel, nurture and wait, who remember and recount the stories, then return, before leaving again, perhaps.

This project takes place between Lebanon and Syria, with the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its expansionist ambitions in the region as a backdrop. It focuses on agricultural communities living in border regions, where lines are drawn and redrawn on maps and cut across lands, homes, and lives.

The work focuses on three specific territories: the Beqaa Valley, South Lebanon, and Southern Syria. Through these places, I seek to explore how those who cultivate the land navigate the instability of borders and seasons — both natural and political.

These communities live between rupture and continuity, displacement and rootedness. The project follows their gestures, their stories, their seasons, to better understand what helps them hold on — what is passed down, repeated, sustained through their ties to the land and to one another — what remains, despite it all — and to make visible a form of resistance rooted in the land and in Man's place in the natural world.

For me, this project is a way of anchoring myself by documenting this moment of profound transformation, in search of meaning, or a way forward, both individual and collective.

It is also a way of practicing a counter-geography — one that does not stem from centers of power, but emerges from the land itself, from agricultural practices, from bonds woven through the seasons, through crossings and returns. It proposes an emotional cartography, drawn from the ground up, sometimes as a new way of seeing, sometimes as a return to older shared geographies, now fragmented by modern borders.

My artistic approach is documentary, rooted in long-term immersion. This work weaves together portraits, landscapes, photographs of objects, animals, and seeds, along with audio and video recordings of stories and daily gestures — moments observed, shared, and remembered.