00:00She can no longer see the world the way she used to, but what she sees now is impossible to
00:06ignore.
00:07In Gaza's Burij refugee camp, 26-year-old Arij al-Safin is learning to live again, one drawing at a
00:16time.
00:17There are no art supplies here, no studios, no galleries, so she burns wood and turns it into charcoal.
00:25Because in a place where everything is taken, creating something becomes an act of survival.
00:33Look closely, every line leads back to the same place.
00:39Eyes, not landscapes, not people, not memories of before.
00:44Just eyes, watching, remembering, surviving.
00:50Her walls are no longer just walls, they are witnesses.
00:54Each eye she draws feels like a memory she refuses to lose, even as everything around her disappears.
01:04But losing her eye was only the beginning.
01:07Because war doesn't just take what you see, it takes what you've created, what you've saved, what you've hoped would
01:15last.
01:42Imagine burning your own memories of the forest.
01:45just to cook a meal, and then starting again from nothing.
01:49When I came to write a book, I didn't have any opportunities, so I thought about the
01:56food.
01:58We used the food for food, and we would like to make food for the workshops.
02:07Her drawings didn't just change in form, they changed in feeling.
02:12What used to be expression is now emotion, raw, unfiltered, unavoidable.
02:21In the past, I had to write a very nice feeling, so after the pain, I had to write a
02:303 different
02:32I mean, the time was a good time, but even the pain, the pain, the pain, the pain, the pain,
02:43the pain, the pain, the pain, the pain.
02:45She is 26 years old, an age where life is supposed to be beginning, not breaking, and yet she speaks
02:54like someone trying to rebuild from the end.
03:11In a place where so much has been destroyed, Arijal Safin is still creating, not because
03:18she has the tools, not because she has the space, but because it's the only way she knows
03:25how to keep going.
03:26And maybe the only way the world will keep seeing her.
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