The Dust series is created with charcoal powder, a material born of fire and combustion. As both medium and residue, charcoal carries the memory of transformation within its very substance. Neither fully solid nor entirely dispersed, it occupies an unstable state between persistence and disappearance. The drawings depict war-damaged ruins fragmented by time and conflict. Buildings appear suspended between collapse and survival, emerging from accumulations of powder only to dissolve back into the surface. The material itself mirrors the condition of the structures it represents: fragile, unstable, and continually threatened by dispersal. Throughout the series, dust functions as a form of material memory.

The scattered particles evoke the fragmentation of cities marked by war, while their accumulation suggests the persistence of traces despite destruction. Yet as architecture collapses and identities fade, cities gradually lose their singular features. Beirut, Aleppo, Mariupol, or any other devastated city become increasingly difficult to distinguish. Their histories remain, but their forms return to a common mineral condition, as if architecture itself were reverting to its original matter. Beneath cultural, political, and historical differences lies a shared substance to which all cities ultimately return. The drawing becomes a fragile archive where memory settles, erodes, and reforms. Silence inhabits these spaces, replacing the violence that produced them and allowing the trace to become visible. In this return to dust, destruction paradoxically reveals a shared condition. Echoing the ancient notion that all things ultimately return to dust, the series approaches ruin not only as a consequence of war but also as a return to a primordial state. Dust becomes both an ending and a beginning: the point at which architecture relinquishes its identity and rejoins the mineral world from which it emerged.

Ruins reduce cities to a common condition in which individual identities dissolve into a collective experience of loss, transformation, and persistence. Rather than presenting ruin as a final condition, Dust explores the threshold between disappearance and survival.