Attempts at Surviva

is a series of images that moves between documentation and

experimental art. I start from my personal space: the apartment I rent in Damascus, the

place where I live day to day between apparent calm and accumulated anxiety. I capture the

details that always accompany me: the shadow of a window that pulls me in, making me

think of jumping as a possibility, yet in the end, I cling to survival as an act, not escape.

In one image, a child sits on a couch, holding a weapon larger than himself. Using a long

shutter speed, the child disappears from the frame, leaving only the weapon, as if it were a

ghost or a memory heavier than his age. The weapon in the image does not depict direct

violence; it evokes the memory of a grave from the cemetery near my home in my war-torn

village. The images move between interior and exterior spaces, between absurd, surreal

thoughts and reflections of war, before I always return to my room, the same initial space.

The project is experimental, yet it documents a precise psychological state: the inner fragility

shaped by war, displacement, and exile. I do not seek dramatic scenes, but the small traces

that reshape daily life. Ordinary objects, a shadow, a couch, a toy, a wall, become part of an

ongoing attempt at survival. In this way, the image becomes a record of the spirit, of the

land, and of the imagination that war has left within us.