The Common Views collective have been working with Bedouin communities in the Negev/Naqab desert since 2019, reflecting their challenging reality of extensive civic and distributive inequities. The following 3D figures are the result of LiDAR and photographic scans of demolished structures at a so-called “unrecognized” Bedouin village in Wadi al-Khalil, deemed illegal by the Israeli authorities. The scans were made shortly following a recent demolition by the authorities of 47 homes, as well as additional animal pens and other structures at the village, over a single morning on 8 May 2024.

The remaining piles of rubble, appearing like temporary, monumental manifestations of “contemporary colonialist sculpture”, stand in stark contrast to the light and versatile construction of the Bedouins, which it seeks to supplant. Each one of the many rubble mounds, composed of twisted metal, broken concrete, and shattered furniture, home appliances and personal belongings, stands as a marker, commemorating the violence of demolition and the many resulting individual tragedies of displacement.