For Manar Hesham,sculptureisaspace to expressemotions that words cannot fully capture, a continuous internal dialogue with human fragility and the scars rime leaves on both body and psyche. Her artistic journey, beginning with ceramics and evolving into stone, finds a profound expression through her engagement with granite at the Aswan International Granite Sculpture Symposium, where the material's hardness and Aswan's historic presence in Egyptian sculpture create a deeply inspiring environment.

The workshepresents depictsa figure whoseincomplete human features appear and vanish, tracing the passage of personal experiences and the process of overcoming them. Through these forms, she leaves ,·oom for reflection, resilience, and hope, interpreting the piece as a rebirth, a renewal emerging from the dialogue between stone, time, and human vulnerability