EIP: Hi Céline. Do you think you could quickly introduce yourself?
CÉLINE: Yes, I'm Céline Semaan. I'm the founder of Slow Factory. I'm an artist, designer, creative, and writer—someone who is at the intersection of many things, primarily climate and human rights, but by way of arts, communications, objects, and stories.
EIP: Could you tell us about your upbringing and your artistic history?
CÉLINE: Yes. I was born and raised in Lebanon during the war—from 1975 to 1995—a very devastating war, and an unspoken-about war in the West. We had to flee as refugees because our ethnicity and religion were under threat.
Sadly, it became very much a religious war.