The wall rises on a hill overlooking Nirox Sculpture Park in Johannesburg, a monumental structure measuring fifteen metres in length and four metres in height. Built from rammed earth and using ancestral techniques, the wall required more than a fortnight to build, engaging professional engineers and experienced masons who worked to give precise material form to El Gotaibi's vision. Yet the true work began only after construction was complete: the artist commenced drilling a large aperture through the solid mass, creating a skylight that transforms barrier into threshold. This circular opening allows sunlight to pass through what was designed to obstruct, converting an instrument of division into a portal for light. The gesture enacts a fundamental paradox: construction becomes the precondition for meaningful destruction, and only by building the wall can the artist create the conditions for its perforation. The hole carved into the earth wall speaks to possibility within constraint, to the potential for openness even within structures designed for enclosure. Light floods through the aperture, reaching the space beyond the wall, and in this passage from darkness to illumination, from blocked vista to revealed horizon, the work articulates its central proposition. What appears as solid obstacle contains within it the seed of its own transcendence. The wall does not disappear but is fundamentally altered by the void cut into its mass, becoming simultaneously barrier and passage, confinement and liberation, shadow and radiance.