On the Unrelated

"Throughout my practice I have been drawn to the act of bringing together images that appear unrelated, but when put together, a synergy is created. In the next few pages I have put together simple collages of images taken at different times, places, and moods. Along with those collages, I have paired two songs that are also resisting the connection I am drawing between them. The intention is not to seek harmony, but to explore what emerges when two opposites, visual and auditory, familiar and foreign, are forced into coexistence. Through this deliberate dissonance, I want to question how meaning is constructed, and whether contradiction itself can become a form of coherence." - Hamad AlFayhani, XINE, 2026

Published in XINE, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia