Memories of life during Lebanon's civil war inspired artist Khaled Sabsabi's work Knowing Beyond. Video by AAP
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00:00My younger brother and my grandmother and auntie, as civil war was taking shape and
00:08the destruction was happening around us, bombs, snipers, etc, etc, that work, we had to seek
00:19shelter in makeshift bunkers which were essentially just under buildings, so they weren't meant
00:27to be bunkers essentially, you know, and some days we would sit there for hours, some days
00:35we would sit there for days, and as a child everything is amplified, so a minute becomes
00:42a week, you know, and what I could clearly remember is that as someone would open a door
00:50or somewhere and light would come in, I could see the shimmer of the walls and it reminded
00:58me of how I tried to replicate that and the only way I could was to use the stained coffee
01:07walls.