Gabriel Lotfy-Nassar materializes ideas with whatever the available tools may be. An ecologist and artist living in relationship with the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Gabriel is a self-taught (which is to say, taught by this world) stop motion animator, usually fulfilling the many roles of filmmaker, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor, and scorer. As well as a self-directed, genre-expansive musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, sound designer, and mix/master engineer, the driving force behind musical projects foraging and Hayawan de Luz. The kind of artist who treats minimal supplies or budget as a welcomed challenge rather than an obstacle - as an invitation to reach deeper into the well of creativity and chance at finding an uncharted route. A crafter, carpenter, gardener, sculptor, avid collaborator, cooking-elaborate-meals-for-loved-ones-enthusiast, Gabriel exists in the space where artistic envisioning meets dedicated reality-building. Guiding the imagined into the tangible. Emanating expressions of the deep interconnectedness of this planetary organism; exploring themes of destruction (of environments, of one another, and inseparably, of the self), the perpetual motion and cycling of change, and inevitably: the return to love as the way forward - not out of a naive reductionism, but out of necessity.