Painted Oasis explores the beauty and resilience of nature and all its vulnerabilities due to humanity’s careless interventions. This series reflects on its survival and its struggles to find its balance. Faced with the reality of climate change, erosion, urban expansion, pollution and our dependence on fossil fuels, nature in its entirety has never been more threatened.

My process begins with extended journeys to remote landscapes, often between the oasis and the desert — places “in between”. My latest journey took me to Egypt — from the vibrant density of Cairo with its ancient pyramids to the stillness of the Siwa Oasis, where the desert and life meet on a fragile edge.

Using photography as my medium I’m fascinated on how to transform the images through a process of staining, painting and varnishing the photos to create my own unique platform. When painting on photographs color becomes its own language of emotion and memory — fog turns red, shadows blue and light turns yellow. The tones of ancient Egypt — gold, blue, ochre — now infuse within my work, speaking of both life and death, mourning and hope.

Painted Oasis is both an ode to life and a farewell to it as it once was. The landscape remains a silent witness — a shelter, a keeper of history and a reminder of our fragile coexistence with nature.