The Poetics of the String and the Architecture of Flight
“Ayko”, a solitary bird from the Birds of Beirut series. Mixed media with real feather collage and Japanese-inspired textures, balanced above the Raouche Rocks.
-
-
Art and Post-Truth: The Copy of the Copy in Beirut
We live in the era of the copy of the copy. Baudrillard warned us: the map replaced the territory. But my birds over the Raouché refuse. My Godivas veil instead of expose. In an age of post-truth, can art still be real? A philosophical reflection on simulacrum, soul, and what resists forgetting.
-
Maternal Lineage: The Ancient Fire Beyond Surnames
Maternal lineage carries an ancient fire — mitochondrial DNA passed from mother to daughter for 200,000 years. A reflection on female heritage and art.
-
The Birds Are Us: The Art of Flying When the Ground Shakes
Discover the art of Jeane Satie: mixed media works featuring real feathers that celebrate wabi-sabi, reconstruction, and the strength of flight amidst the scars of Beirut.
-
The Sensory Vacuum— or why I paint what I cannot say
Wittgenstein said the limits of my language are the limits of my world. But what happens when you live in the in-between — Portuguese, Arabic, French — and still there are moments when all the dictionaries in the world leave a deficit of silence? I call this space the sensory vacuum. It is not absence. It is excess. And it is where my art begins.”
-
The Impossible Gallery: Or How to Insist on Art When the World Refuses to Cooperate
Independent art gallery in Beirut: a story of resistance, solidarity, and insisting on art when geopolitics and market indifference try to silence small spaces.
-
Identity in Motion: The Bering Strait Was Not a Bridge
Identity in Motion explores Japanese-Brazilian-Lebanese heritage through grandmothers’ wisdom, cultural crossings, and the Bering Strait metaphor. A deeply personal journey.
-
Beirut Birds: Invisible Borders and the Privilege of Flight
Beirut Birds series explores invisible borders that define our lives. A reflection on geographic privilege, resilience, and art born from fragments in Lebanon.
-
Surfing Life While Being Analog: Art, Technology, and Creative Resistance
Analog artist in a digital world: how a 57-year-old painter in Beirut navigates technology, sells art online, and finds creative resistance through wabi-sabi and hope.
-
Two Medicines, One Heart: A Letter from an Artist to Her Daughter, Who Is Pure Art
Art of healing: a letter from artist mother to doctor daughter exploring how brushes and medicine both fight death, forgetting, and the dimming of lights.
