The art angle in Palestinian lives is not usually covered much in the news reports, which Americans, and Europeans, let alone Arabs, hear when it comes to life under colonial rule. Yet, art production from the occupied territories has been leaving its powerful marks on the modern history of the Palestinians. Since 1967 Palestinian painting, sculpting, political posters, and installations have been signifying both continuity and rapture from premodern forms of Palestinian art, and yet narrate “familiar and unfamiliar” Palestinian national discourse in various forms. As Edward Said has put it, “ artists, like poets and novelist, “embod[y] the historical experience of their people in aesthetic works.” This paper attempts to follow the work of the Beit Jala artist, Nadira Araj, and looks at how her different forms of installations communicate visually what is beautiful and sublime in the Palestinian experience under occupation, even and especially when she has to tease it out of tragic scenery.