peinture abandonnée - اللوحة المهجورة - abandoned painting
Beit Mery, Lebanon.
As Khadisha River crosses the city of Tripoli, Lebanon, this painting bridges me with the memory of my grandparents living room. It was dispalyed on the wall since my father painted it at the age of 18, after a photograph by his uncle. I found it last year, dusty and buried on the attic among an amat of furniture and other items; ruins of my childhood, and probably, the painting itself, ruins of his own childhood…
Then one day the river swallowed the bridge.
Et la carte postale d’une photo N/B colorée, devint le décor d’un des contes des mille et une nuits …
And the postcard of a colored B/W photo, became the scenery for one out of the tales from the thousand and one nights …