These two objects, emblems of motion and rest, are rendered immobile, corroded, and hollow. The car, overtaken by wild grasses and oxidized into a mineral crust, speaks to the futility of progress and the illusion of permanence. The armchair, once a seat of domestic repose, now sits like a forgotten relic in a cathedral of entropy. Each photograph captures not merely decay, but the dignity of decline, the grace with which materials return to earth.
The series draws inspiration from the aesthetics of Wabi-sabi, the Japanese philosophy that honours imperfection and impermanence, and the photographic traditions of urban exploration and ruin aesthetics, as practiced by artists like Robert Polidori and Camilo José Vergara.
At its heart, Echoes of Departure is about the lives objects once lived, the people who once touched them, and the silence that remains when time becomes the final inhabitant.
BASSEM H. BOUSTANY Photography 
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