Artwork: eL Seed, *Continuum*, Diriyah, Riyadh, 2025

French/Tunisian artist eL Seed’s recent project Continuum involves 7 artworks spread around Diriyah, Riyadh shaped by his signature “calligraffiti”. Central to the project is eL Seed’s exploration of the nature of identity, especially what he terms “Third Culture” individuals who constantly navigate a journey of rediscovery; of straddling the past and present, tradition and evolution, where identity is this dynamic thread, a journey rather than fixed state of being. In eL Seed’s view the walls he paints tell stories of “resilience, while sculptural additions symbolize fluidity, presenting identity as both rooted and ever-expanding”. In a short film about the project eL Seed had this to say:

“Continuum. This is a continuity of something. You know, it’s about identity. All of us, we’re complete in a certain way, but there is a layer of your identity that is not expressed. You know, because of circumstances. And then you reach a place, or a moment in your life that makes you express it. And I think me as a ‘third-culture’ kid, I felt this, you know, my Arabic culture was something that I started expressing only when I became a teenager, you know when I started learning how to read and write Arabic. I hope that a lot of people will find a reflection into this project as well. It’s a combination of different stuff. So, we have this project in the street and I created an installation in my space in JAX. The pieces in the street and the piece in the studio are related, which is like another interpretation of this concept I’m doing, mixing painting and sculpture. So, super exciting.”