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The Gemmazeh series arose from a recent visit to Beirut. In the context of the recent #YouStink peaceful protests there, one resident critic commented: ‘the yellow and red of the traditional Lebanese house contrasting with the greys of the concrete jungle work wonderfully as a metaphor for the conflict between the cultural conservationists and the hard-boiled capitalists; the war legacy and the subsequent identity crisis; and so on. With the hints of calligraphy, which aren’t too overt, there is something unmistakably ‘Beiruti’ about it.'