Created with dry pastels on a monumental scale (100x70 cm) ,
For 120 hours , Zahira is the second work in my collection
"Souls of the World".

Her name is Zahira .

A name with profound resonances, meaning "the luminous one, the radiant one, the one who shines from within" .

A name chosen as an obvious choice, because everything in this work speaks of light: the light of the desert, the light of history, the light of the soul.

Zahira is born in the endless sand, where the dunes seem to breathe to the rhythm of the wind. She carries within her the memory of ancient civilizations and the majesty of the pyramids of Giza, eternal guardians of time. Her gaze is lost in the golden horizon, but it also holds the brilliance of the stars that once guided desert travelers.

I wanted this portrait to be not just that of a woman, but that of a people, a culture, a land.

Every line of her face blends into the landscape:

– her eyes reflect the deep blue of the Nile, a source of life in the aridity,

– her lips echo the curves of the dunes sculpted by the storms,

– her skin glows like the ochre stone of sun-drenched temples.

ZAHIRA is both a presence and a symbol.

She represents woman as a pillar of the world, protector of memory, heir to an ancient wisdom that no sand, no wind can erase. She reminds us that beneath every veil, behind every silence, burns an indomitable light.

In this work, history is not just painted: it breathes.

Here we find the brilliance of the sunset setting the dunes ablaze, the sacred silhouette of the pyramids rising against eternity, and the silent call of the oases where life is reborn. It is a journey: from an ancient world to an inner world.

ZAHIRA is the meeting between the majesty of Egypt and the timelessness of the human soul.

It's the idea that art can be a bridge between eras, between people, between cultures. It is the desert and its mystery, but also the light that illuminates the inner night within each of us.