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Influenced by a dialogue over the years with the Palestinian pedagogue Munir Fasheh on turbeh (‘local soil’ in Arabic) and inspired by the Palestinian writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh’s writings on sarha (to wander freely with the terrain), Toukan crafts an intimate and uniquely haptic perspective on images from what she terms their “soil grain” – reading images as topographies, and topographies as images. 

A composition of photographs selected from the book Things Bigger Than What Can Be Seen are presented here, and imbued with notations titled Index (Living Things).