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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. Things Bigger Than What Can Be Seen, published by Archive Books as part of we refuse_d, explores these symmetries and analogies and translates some of Toukan’s essays on seeing into Arabic for the first time.