As if an itinerant geographer of conflicted territories, Salloum observes the world and creates images/texts to re-make meaning from. His practice is based in a network of relation being and building. He tries to go only where he is invited or where there is an intrinsic affinity, his projects being rooted in an intimate engagement with place. A grandson of Syrian or Lebanese immigrants he was born and raised on others’ land, the Sylix (Okanagan) territory. After 21 years living and working elsewheres he planted himself on the unceded stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷey̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səíl̓wətaʔł (aka Vancouver). Recognizing and acting on this is an everyday practice, but let’s face it, he could do a lot more.