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Pomegranates

acrylic and pencil on watercolor paper · 2026

15 × 21 cm

A persistent symbol in Lebanese culture, and across the Mediterranean, the pomegranate embodies resilience, abundance, and prosperity. In Greek myth, Persephone eating the pomegranate seeds in the underworld is what binds her to it: she cannot fully leave; she cannot fully stay. She belongs to two worlds simultaneously, and neither completely. The fruit is the agent of that split belonging. Meanwhile in Phoenician iconography, the fruit's many seeds signify multiplicity held within a single form — a community, a lineage, a people — contained but pressured, the skin taut around what's inside. In Lebanese folk culture specifically it remains a symbol of home and hospitality, and you can still see it at thresholds and in kitchens.

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