‘’Baghdad Old City Maze (Map) (1993) is a work from my second solo exhibition titled ‘’Baghdad, Geography, People And Signs’’.  The exhibition bases on research was conducted about daily life and history of the city after Gulf war one 1991. I began to see Baghdad as a city of many layers of destruction and began to imagine its history in cross-section, a sort of cultural core sample. Two wars had shown me how quickly the city could alter. At the same time, it made me aware of the endless cycles of building and destruction. Baghdad has seen since the 8th century when it was founded. In any case, this is when I started to distress materials, something that is still integral to my practice. This Monochromic Bas-wooden- relief depicts my imagination of old map of Baghdad. The central golden circle at the work indicates to the first founded- fiery map of the city