Landscape Inscribed

Work In Progress

The desert means one thing to those who have experienced it and another thing to those who haven’t and only up close will one notice the subtleties that distinguish one from the other. The Arabian Desert is vast, up close it reveals its diversity, but futher still, its subtle and redefining quality is its human history. Landscape Inscribed centres around the representation of this unique region while examining this surprisingly consistent link to a human past. Accounting for contemporary ways in which urbanity is continually encroaching on its edges with fast expanding developments, and ways in which nomadic communities still make the desert their home as they adapt to changing times, the exploration will delve deeper, into what is essentially invisible—to lost cultural landscapes still tenuously tethered to the present. The passage of time and the “memory” of the landscape will become central in this series concerned with revealing what is hidden, yet found in plain sight.