Physical painting Mixed media Acrylic-marker-rapid on canvas 100*150 cm This painting is inspired by Amin Maalouf’s novel The Gardens of Light, where Mani appears not only as a prophet but as a painter and healer of light. Standing calmly among dense flowers, trees, and peaceful animals, hands gently clasped and gaze serene, he seems to hold within himself the radiant particles cascading from the sky. Here the garden is no ordinary landscape, but the realm of illumination and tolerance—a place where beauty, creatures, and plants are all living signs of the same light that Mani gave his life to liberate from the bonds of darkness.