Encampment of the Oulad Said 

David Roberts painted this watercolor, "Encampment of the Oulad Said," in the 19th century. Look at the prominent mountains that dominate the background, their peaks resembling sacred pyramids. Mountains have forever been culturally symbolic as places of spiritual awakening and divine encounter. Consider Mount Sinai, a significant religious site where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Across cultures, mountains embody stability, endurance, and the quest for higher consciousness. The mountain motif echoes in art through time, from Renaissance depictions of Mount Parnassus to Romantic landscapes evoking the sublime power of nature. The persistent recurrence of the mountain as a symbol highlights our collective subconscious. A desire to transcend the material world, seek knowledge, and connect with forces greater than ourselves. Like a dream, the mountain image resurfaces, transformed, yet forever tethered to our shared cultural memory.