The Celestial Weave
2025
Twenty-four linocuts on newsprints mounted plywood. Various dimensions
Two unique artist’s books consisting of twelve linocuts and silk prints on Arches paper, mounted and bound in a concertina format, with a handmade cover. 45 x 30 x 1,5 cm when closed
Series of linocuts on Arches paper in archival boxes. Various dimensions
The Celestial Weave: Newspaper Dialogues
A six-panel artwork exploring how printed narratives shift across languages, geographies and times. The Roots Newspaper series (three panels on the right) draw on the visual language of Arabic press design, evoking themes of memory. In dialogue with The Echo Newspaper series (three panels on the left), these works reflect on how stories transform and resonate through translation and history.
The Celestial Weave I
The Celestial Weave II
The patterns in The Celestial Weave I and II emerge from the six-panel work The Celestial Weave: Newspaper Dialogues. These artist books draw on the ornamental traditions of the Arab world — from arabesque lattices and shamsa medallions to floral architectural motifs. Across fifteen linocuts reductions bound in two volumes, three recurring patterns are repeatedly overprinted with bomb clouds, then stripped of ink, leaving only the white of the paper behind.
This erasure is not destruction — it is an invitation. The empty spaces invite viewers to reconstruct what has been lost, mirroring the act of piecing together histories that have been silenced or erased. Through this process, the work traces the fragile persistence of cultural memory.