escape is constant and never complete

A wall is never only a wall. It is a permission, a schedule, a neighbour with an opinion, and a date on which someone else decides whether the painting stays.[1]

Escape here does not mean leaving. It means moving through the places that hold you, again and again, and leaving a mark each time that the place cannot fully absorb.[2]

This series works in that space: paintings made to be moved, murals made to be outlived, and a radio station that exists mostly as sound passing between two cities.[3]

notes

  1. 1 On permits, removals and the long life of a short mural, see the mural index.
  2. 2 Fugitivity as a method, not a metaphor. Still in formation; these notes are where it gets tested.
  3. 3 Zawyeh Radio, broadcasting from a café and art space in Amman since May 2025.
  • Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism, Verso, 2020.
  • Laurel Schwulst, “My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge”, 2018.
  • zawyehradio.com
  • Made with support from CBK Rotterdam.

replies 2

rana —

the neighbour with an opinion is every wall i have ever painted.

joost —

will the series be shown in rotterdam?