The video follows the communal effort to produce and install the urban intervention in the center of Baghdad: a giant white fabric with a print of Abbas’s eye, alongside large Arabic letters reading Akder Ashoufak (I Can See You), spray-painted atop a building. 

Positioned to overlook the Green Zone, once a government hub, later a fortified American base, and finally the seat of Iraq’s interim government, the work inverts power dynamics: citizens now monitor the politicians inside the zone. 

Though it was swiftly removed by authorities, the piece calls attention to residents trapped in a city ransacked and partitioned by violence and military occupation.