Human beings are not limited by their skin. I paint the moment two living things meet and have to decide whether they become one. Over six years my subject moved inward: from faces, to the body beneath them, to cells and seeds, until the sperm-shaped mark became the brushstroke itself.
It began in December 2019 with a charcoal drawing of a face. Until 2023 I worked almost entirely in black, white and grey — first charcoal, then acrylic, mixing my own greys and learning how value creates depth. Color arrived in 2023, and I kept the same discipline: mixing and layering to build depth and vibration.
The surfaces have changed — faces, figures, fields, circles — but the same forms keep coming back: a body with an opening at its center, and two beings pressed together. What also stays is how the paintings are made: from many marks and layers, one at a time.
I left finance after more than a decade, in 2020, to paint full time. I didn't go to art school; the work developed through daily practice.
I live and work in Beirut, and spend part of every year in Montréal.