#culture

‘‘My father always told me: in Sohag, the moment you open the door, nature greets you,’’ says Gehad Abdalla, an Egyptian artist originally from Sohag. ‘‘Everything we create comes from nature. It’s in our craft, in our hands, and pieces of it now sit in places like the British Museum and the Met in New York.’’ In Sohag, nature is not the neatly trimmed trees that city dwellers know. It is not organized into tidy lines or curated like…