Landscape Inscribed

Work In Progress

Landscape Inscribed depicts a unique landscape that characterizes much of Arabia, both from a spatial perspective and a cultural one. Landscape as a concept is hardly pristine nature anymore, with even the most remote environments revealing some traces and effects of past or present human activity. This region is a case in point; a seemingly “empty” land that on examination reveals a long history of a human past and a present that redefines the idea of a desolate space through its expanding human intervention. Landscape Inscribed shows these desolate environments in their grand silence while linking to their human activity, speaking specifically to their complex relationship of the natural to the built environment and the land’s surprisingly ancient cultural memory.