Olive Leaves Memories is a folding book that pays homage to the olive tree in a time when unfolding violence has impeded what should have been a sacred harvest season.
The handmade book holds space for the olive tree and recalls its stories through a visual record of its traces and marks. By embedding the leaves within recycled plastic and using them to form photograms, it is a multifaceted and collaborative endeavour between the artist and the olive tree. The leaves were collected from a tree in the backyard of the home the artist grew up in. The book itself is bound with threads dyed with pigment extracted from the olive leaves.
The book is a call to listen to the land and its memories, with particular reference to the olive tree, its ancestral significance and its capability of outliving generations.