The Orontes River Repository
The Orontes River Repository is an ongoing research database conducting and mapping out various layers of the Orontes river and its tributaries in Bilad Al Sham within urban and educational purposes.
Fragmented Sceneries- Land and Water - © 2023 Joelle Deeb (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Fragmented Sceneries- Tells and Hills - © 2023 Joelle Deeb (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Fragmented Sceneries- Agricultural Lands - © 2023 Joelle Deeb (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Memory is established from places and images. . . A locus is a place easily grasped by memory. Images are forms, marks, or simulacra of what we wish to remember., we must place their images on definite loci. - The Art of Memory, Francis Yates
Landscape Varieties- Examining Topographies around the Orontes - © 2023 Joelle Deeb (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Earth Memory and its Relationship to Landscapes
Akin to humans, objects may be confined together with us and naturally suffer from fundamental shifts. Objects in question collaboratively develop into more than solely recalls; they become survivors and storytellers.
This is a reflection on these mnemonic objects and its interrelation with the depletion of sources, land, seeds, and awareness. Characterized by exhausted terrains, inflicted absences, and an unalterable degradation of native landscapes, it is necessary to grasp the influence of native practices and knowledge, as well as storytelling and folklore.
The Orontes River Repository is about embracing within them the histories and memories that sustain our current realities. As water practices have evolved into spatial performances of recollection as a result of unprecedented mappings and other creative identifications.
Each method has additionally become a pillar of earth memory and interchange.
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