images from the other world

David Wojnarowicz wrote in his book Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, “I’ve experienced the sensation of seeing myself from miles above the earth, as if from the clouds. I see the tiny human form of myself from overhead either sitting or moving through this clockwork of civilization … only now instead of focusing on just the form of myself in the midst of this Other World I see everyone and everything at once. It’s like pressing ones I to a small crevice in the earth from which streams of ants utter from the shadows—and now it all looks amazing instead of just deathly.”
Inspired by his term of the Other World, and his description of the world only looking beautiful from really close or really far; the images in this series take shape as little glimpses at the world before Hamad's eyes, as he tries to look for glimpses of beauty amidst his own shaken reality. Getting close and going so far.

Shown at Revolving Rooms, Wusum Gallery, Qatar