02/11/2025
A Monument to Memory & Hope
This totem embodies Lebanon’s identity through weight, contrast, and lightness. Its base of thick, time-marked wood recalls the cedar’s rootedness and resilience, layers of history, scars, and endurance anchoring the past. Between these heavy blocks lie fragile pauses: thin glass bubbles, transparent and weightless, letting in light and breath. They evoke life’s delicacy, the quiet tension between burden and grace, yet they hold everything above them. As the totem rises, wood and glass alternate, echoing Lebanon’s rhythm of strength and fragility. At the summit, glass breaks free, rising like a quiet eruption of hope, persistent and luminous. This monument asks how fragility carries such weight; its answer lies in Lebanon’s spirit, rooted, scarred, and still reaching skyward.
DETAILS W.52 X D.52 x H.300 cm
Made of blown glass bubble and reclaimed burnt cedar wood
