Architecture & Interior

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The Dance of Shifting Sands - ONGOING MURAL SERIES




The Dance of Shifting Sands is an ongoing series of site-specific ceramic light murals that I conceive as architectural transmissions—material reflections of energy, memory, and space. Each mural is composed of hand-sculpted ceramic reliefs, integrated with opto-fiber lighting, forming a tactile surface that carries both physical depth and symbolic resonance.

The first work in the series was created live over 500 hours at Deerfields Mall, Abu Dhabi, in continuous dialogue with the public. That process—open, durational, and responsive—became central to the work itself. I read the space, the people, their questions, moods, and presences, and allowed those invisible currents to guide the form. I do not impose; I translate.

Born in the desert of Kazakhstan, I carry a lifelong relationship with silence, shifting sand, and the sensory codes of landscape. In this series, I return to those elements—not as symbols, but as languages that shape the structure and emotion of each mural.

Each piece in The Dance of Shifting Sands will be entirely unique. There is no repetition. Some may be soft, spectral, almost translucent; others dense, textured, and grounded in earth-pigments or nocturnal tones. Ceramic forms emerge like fossilized memories, while embedded light systems allow some works to shift interactively responding to viewers and emotional states through programmable light modes.

This is not decorative art. It is conceptual, material, and spatial. The wall becomes an interface—a porous membrane between physical site and metaphysical presence.

I am developing this series across desert regions and beyond: from the Emirates to North Africa, from the Levant to Central Asia. Each new site offers a new energy to read, a new frequency to render. I invite cultural institutions, public art curators, architectural developers, and spiritual spaces to collaborate.



If you carry a space—a wall, a building, a threshold—
that feels like it holds something unspoken,

I would be honored to shape what it’s ready to reveal.

First mural of "Shifting Sands" series in the Deerfields Mall in Abu Dhabi - in details 
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