‘Beside the Yialias River’ was a propositional work comprising 4 digital prints and a set of 5 postcards (produced in a limited edition of 25). The proposition, was to plant a grove of trees and copper rods, at Ayios Sozomenos (Arpalik) in the Republic of South Cyprus, and at Kirklar (Tymvou) in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, either side of the UN de-militarized Buffer Zone through which the course of the Yialias River runs. The positions of the trees and copper rods should be plotted from the pattern of bullet marks visible on one of the few remaining ruins in Ayios Sozomenos, once an inter-communal village.

The work was shown as part of the Buffer Fringe Festival VI, 2019, which was held in a series of UN Tents, erected inside no-man’s land at Ledra Palace Crossing between North and South Nicosia. The work formed part of ‘Urban Glendi: CCFT’, a group show curated for the Buffer Fringe by Urban Gorillas–Yiorgos Hadjichristou, comprising site responsive works to the context of the Buffer Fringe's theme: "Defining the buffer zone, in between spaces".

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