This work reconstructs a terraced landscape in the village of Kobar, land I have known my entire life, but can no longer access. Since November 2024, settlers have occupied this area, preventing Palestinians from returning.

From the opposite mountain, I used a telephoto lens to photograph the view from a distance, bringing myself as close as possible to a place now physically out of reach. The final image, stitched together from 72 photographs, reassembles that familiar terrain in full detail: the olive trees, the stone terraces, the altered horizon.

Historically, these terraces were planted with olive, fig, and grape. Today, only the olive trees remain. The others have vanished, lost to the destruction caused by wild animals introduced by settlers. In the distance, pine trees, also brought by settlers, have begun to overwrite the native landscape.

Parts of the print have been physically burned, referencing the settlers’ ongoing practice of burning Palestinian olive trees, a last, violent attempt to sever the bond between people and land.