The Green Eraser [2018]

Lebanon

Medium: Colorful Green Fabrics mounted on 30(+) Rectangular Panels | Land Art Installation | Digital Photography.

In order to save the planet, One must cut carbon emissions and replant the land.
Beirut has been erased and rebuilt time and time again throughout history, and its truths are hidden and buried beneath the surface. Different shades of green frames are placed around the drying river of Beirut in order to abstract sensations from each landscape, and the multiplicity of colors becomes a unity of perception. The green frames are placed in-depth so to create a perspectival anamorphic installation which looks like an aerial view of agricultural land and furthermore resembles a big pixel.

The idea of greenery needs to be planted in people’s minds… One must leave clear spaces for the body and mind to fulfill and occupy.
While organized chaos disrupt one’s vision over the surface, the smooth frames are stretching one’s perception into infinity…
“The Green Eraser” is the bridge between the interior of the landscape and the façade of the world; the link between the real and the actual, and presents the corners of the plane of composition which abstracts sensation from the landscape. It is the territory and surface onto which intensive forces and resistances are projected – imaginations and dreams – ‘spatial’ hopes and desires to replant the planet as greener as ever…