This series is a meditation on the devaluation of a dream. It was born in the wake of the Lebanese uprising—a brief, rare moment where the city felt accessible and the bird emerged in my work as a motif of reclaimed freedom.
As the uprising faltered, the bird’s nature shifted from liberty to exodus. By layering this symbol over the banknotes of potential futures, the work explores the tension between the soaring spirit of a revolution and the heavy, metallic reality of inflation.
In this series, the bird no longer represents the sky above the city, but the currency of departure. It is a study of the "weight" of moving where the value of a home is traded for the cost of a flight, and the freedom of the streets is replaced by the search for a new, welcoming geography.