This is an ongoing book project about the search for God in the Holy Land.

In 2014 I spent 7 months in Israel, Palestine and the Sinai peninsula, looking for what some people call God through intellect, evil, love, and imagination (each of them is an actual chapter of the book).

There is a space, psychological, in those who have firmly believed in God when they were children, and than have lost their faith later, embracing a dichotomy of science and religion, tradition and modernity. That lacuna, that was occupied by the love for God, still exists, orphan, often angry, but intact in their minds.

There is another space, geographical, an area where the important monotheistic religions have been witnessing a millenary dialogue with God and His Prophets: these are the lands of Israel, West Bank and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Today these territories, which are disputed between Palestinians and Israelis, Muslims and Jews, are synonymous with Apartheid, conflicted and unnatural landscapes.

It’s where these two spaces, one psychological and the other geographical, meet each other, that birthed this book. It’s a journey that takes place in the strangest, but most intimate of all the places: the space between the God that fled away and the One that maybe will come at last.

I combined text, stories, drawings, photographs I made with a 4×5 large format camera and old photographs I found in flee markets.