In an unstable environment with tense conditions within wars and conflicts, human rights violations, and restrictions in counties, I grew up in a petrified and hard land on which siege and blockade has been imposed, including the air land, and sea movement restrictions, which made me have more love and adherence to resist and work strongly against great injustice. So I felt like a bird in a cage where there is restriction on its movement, and being determined on what to eat and to drink. This deprivation of obtaining the minimum of my rights as a human being lives in the modern world,which has reached very high levels of civilization in the aspects of life, where human utilize the technology to enhance the way of living ; the occupation using and utilizing the technologies for developing the ultimate killing weapons and machines to kill children and women and all kind of life meaning.

Artist Statement

My art is the mirror of what I feel and suffer of the oppression and control of the Israeli occupation of my life all time. All of these didn’t stop me to express and present a simple, easy, and uncomplicated visual language in contrast to the reality in which I live, and that shows the extent of my passion and great love. To get freedom.

In my work, I focus on people who are similar to me in all my circumstances that I lived in Gaza, and I try to constantly search for new and innovative lines that reflect the strength of the will to live and deliver symbolic messages to the audience by collecting elements that any one feels that it is illogical to be in together in one painting.

« Man no longer has his own space. The issue of monitoring people via cameras and mobile phones and stealing personal data has become a reality and is taking place in many societies at the hands of a strong and influential leadership against a weak group of people. The greatest luck in this was Gaza, which is the only place whose residents live under strict and deliberate round-the clock surveillance and follow-up of civilians who live their lives normally. The siege has been imposed on Gaza for more than two decades by land, sea, and air.

The occupation in Gaza used many tools, the most important of which were Israeli aircraft, which penetrated people's privacy and exposed their private parts by carrying high-quality cameras to photograph people. It was used to photograph homes, public facilities, gardens, agricultural areas, the beach and every sandy area in Gaza. I lived there for 28 years, and I and the people there suffered a lot from the annoying sounds made by those reconnaissance planes for years in a row, and they psychologically harmed the residents, including those who developed and carried electronic machine guns and bombs. They also killed people in public streets And in a park, in hospitals, and in public facilities, until he reached the bed and the toilet. Unfortunately, technology has developed to include artificial intelligence, which has become a tool that helps the occupation get creative in killing and assassination, as if they were playing a computer game and could end a life with the push of a button For a person or even an entire family.

The painting shows the state of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing practiced by the occupation on the people, forcing them to leave their homes under a humiliating and painful threat.

I draw these faces mixed with sadness, suffering and feelings of fear of the unknown when no one knows where they are going You can look into their eyes and see different stories, stories and feelings. I draw it with trembling, frightened, and sinuous lines, far from the natural form that is no longer natural. Rather, life has turned into frequent emergencies and life on hold. In other paintings we see expressive scenes that reflect imaginary images of features that changed due to the harsh circumstances that made them tougher than others. We see symbolic forms in the works that we may not see together in reality, but I see them in my mind and then put them in one painting to create a state of shock in the viewer and create a dialogue between him and the work and for him to ask questions.»