Saleh AbuShamala
Writer and editor
On Trace of The Tide, he says: “Trace of The Tide is a commons shaped by the trace of twoness: between the human and the more-than-human; an opening that restores to humanity the capacity to tremble; a space beyond the course of binaries; an expanse where the lexicon of synonyms opens upon the dust of opposites; a vast meadow of endless possibilities. A living horizon where creation moves, possibility takes form, and returns to transform again between stories and mujaawarah—companionship, proximity, and shared life.
A Palestinian writer and editor whose practice moves at the intersection of people’s stories and community, the present as a rhythm taking shape within a living mosaic, and the commons as a web of human and more-than-human relationships. His work extends across writing, editing, curatorial practice, and archival pathways. He approaches language, culture, and architecture as living patches within a human architecture. A Feral Cultivator, his practice is rooted in a cultivator’s lexicon and in mosaics of being that emerge from the wildness of the commons rather than from institutional abstraction. He explores how cultural expressions persist, transform, create, and respond under conditions of siege, ferality, and dehumanisation; how language shifts between lexicons and dictionaries; how art emerges from the details of everyday shared life; and how stories survive and transform through the companionship of neighbours across the fields of the horizon.